How do you use Tumbleweeds in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Tumbleweeds meaning
plural of tumbleweed
Using Tumbleweeds
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of tumbleweed
- In the example corpus, tumbleweeds often appears in combinations such as: the tumbleweeds.
Context around Tumbleweeds
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tumbleweeds
- In this selection, "tumbleweeds" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, museum, days, few, film and showcases stand out and add context to how "tumbleweeds" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few tumbleweeds you ll and but by tumbleweeds. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tumbleweeds" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tumbleweeds
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The weeds and brush were high including nasty thorny tumbleweeds. (10 words)
Utah’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival is now offering films online for $6. (12 words)
Residents in Great Falls, Montana are being invaded — not by tourists, but by tumbleweeds. (14 words)
According to the Natural History Museum, tumbleweeds are native to dry and semi-dry regions in Europe and Central Asia and “accidentally” arrived in South Dakota in 1870, in a shipment of flax seeds from Russia. (36 words)
That was a smart safety move, Mr. Thorson said, but also one that left the tumbleweeds, which would normally roll out onto the desert, with no way off the road. (30 words)
The cost to remediate the land to a natural state not involving tons of tumbleweeds would run well into eight figures, according Mayor Gregg Hull. (25 words)
Example sentences (10)
Residents in Great Falls, Montana are being invaded — not by tourists, but by tumbleweeds.
According to the Natural History Museum, tumbleweeds are native to dry and semi-dry regions in Europe and Central Asia and “accidentally” arrived in South Dakota in 1870, in a shipment of flax seeds from Russia.
That was a smart safety move, Mr. Thorson said, but also one that left the tumbleweeds, which would normally roll out onto the desert, with no way off the road.
Thorson says five cars and one 18-wheel semi truck were trapped in the tumbleweeds.
Utah’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival is now offering films online for $6.
Over its three days, Tumbleweeds showcases a program of features, short films, animation and documentaries for and about young people.
Texas isn't the barren wasteland, full of cowboys and tumbleweeds, that Hollywood portrays.
The cost to remediate the land to a natural state not involving tons of tumbleweeds would run well into eight figures, according Mayor Gregg Hull.
An hour from Vegas, past rolling brown hills and more than a few tumbleweeds, you’ll find Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club.
The weeds and brush were high including nasty thorny tumbleweeds.
Common combinations with tumbleweeds
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: