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Tumbleweed meaning
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc. | Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds. | A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
Example sentences (13)
Then I remembered that advertising for weed is illegal in CO,and that it's an ad for Tumbleweed Property Management, which happens to be in the same location as Tumbleweed Dispensary (right next to the drive-thru weedery and Tumbleweed Liquors).
A marketer or founder came along, set everything up, uploaded some videos and then… tumbleweed.
One challenge we have when it comes to high winds is tumbleweed.
When we saw pictures of Jake Paul walking in, by contrast, tumbleweed at best.
From the southern tip of the San Luis River below Tumbleweed to the coasts of Iron Lake to the swamps of Lemoyne, the Largemouth Bass can be seen jumping out of the water.
If the Southeastern Conference had a mascot, it would be a tumbleweed for all the stadiums that will sit empty on Saturday.
They brought the whistling and the tumbleweed.
Tufts of dog hair float in the hallway like tumbleweed on a western prairie.
California has enough to worry about on the invasive species front, thank you very much, but it's now also home to a monster hybrid tumbleweed.
It was during the 1970s that “Colorado Lace” or tumbleweed, became the chandelier’s traditional decorative cover.
Since then, she has stayed in school, finally finding a home with the Tumbleweed transitional housing program.
The wind storm brought something else to Tumbleweed Gulch.
In this state, often the whole fungus becomes detached from the ground and may roll around as a tumbleweed does.