| But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness. |
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| On this blindingly bright summer day, the wind whips at her long skirt and blows tumbleweeds down the streets. |
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| Every moving object poses a danger to drivers, from tumbleweeds to house cats crossing the road at night. |
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| Someone should have organised for a wind machine to blow tumbleweeds past in the background. |
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| However if these things continue to happen tumbleweeds will be blowing down the streets of many towns and cities in western Canada. |
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| The tumbleweeds blowing up Main Street looked like ghostly brains in the snow. |
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| Around it, a black chain-link fence catches the plastic cups, paper and other debris that roll along like tumbleweeds. |
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| As the landscape grew bleaker — tumbleweeds piled against wire fences — Lauer turned onto Coles Levee Road and stopped the car. |
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| He wandered around the huge painted backdrops of prairie fires, dust storms, tumbleweeds, tornadoes. |
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| Behind the new factory for a third of a mile workmen leveled off sagebrush and tumbleweeds for a landing strip just 2.5 times as wide as the Vega's wing span. |
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| The barren soil along the edge of the dikes proved fertile ground for mustard, tumbleweeds, and other plants that the refuge managers and farmers considered pests. |
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| When we plow up more land than can be farmed, grade and disrupt natural landscapes, we provide fertile ground for non-native tumbleweeds and exotic invasive plants. |
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| In Lubbock, where Sarah lived, there weren't any trees, just tumbleweeds and scrabbly old mesquite bushes. |
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| Huge tumbleweeds of dog fur rolled across the floor. |
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| Tumbleweeds, the dense Russian thistles accidentally introduced to the west, are ubiquitous. |
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| Janet, an old girl of Queen Anne School in York, was named best actress in a musical or comedy film for her performance as a Southern mum in Tumbleweeds. |
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| A dull and callow choice, an almost insulting choice, compared with the powerful and vibrant women like Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds, Julianne Moore in The End of the Affair and Annette Bening in American Beauty. |
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| Janet McTeer beat Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts to the best comedy actress globe for Tumbleweeds, a low-budget caper in which she plays a hippy, dippy Southern belle kept in line by her old-before-her-time daughter. |
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