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Weedy is an English word with synonyms like weedless or scraggy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Weedy meaning

  1. Abounding with weeds.
  2. Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
  3. Consisting of weeds.

Using Weedy

  • The main meaning on this page is: Abounding with weeds. | Of, relating to or resembling weeds. | Consisting of weeds.
  • Useful related words include: weedless, scraggy, boney, scrawny.
  • In the example corpus, weedy often appears in combinations such as: in weedy, weedy and, the weedy.

Context around Weedy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Weedy

  • In this selection, "weedy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, shallow, sound, looking, area, colonizers and 940 stand out and add context to how "weedy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a rather weedy looking anchor and in a weedy area before. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "weedy" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with weedy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Use of PCR-based molecular markers to identify weedy Amaranthus species. (11 words)

Soils that are too alkaline can affect plants’ growth, leaving them weedy and underdeveloped. (14 words)

Signs of low oxygen in shallow weedy lakes as shiners on tip-ups dying quickly. (15 words)

Indeed, by far the most infuriating part of last night’s concluding hour was waiting for Robin, a woman wise beyond her years, to wise up, get rid of her weedy fiancé, Matthew (Kerr Logan), and shack up with Strike. (40 words)

He also concluded there is little support to treat C. ruderalis as a separate species from C. sativa at this time, but more research on wild and weedy populations is needed because they were underrepresented in their collection. (38 words)

Sadly, a wealthy donor paid $1,000,000 for a landscape architect to redesign the flower beds, and the blooming flowers were replaced with wild-looking weedy, overgrown plants, shrubs and small trees that are overwhelming. (36 words)

Together, they dug out the weedy 940-square-foot front lawn and parkway by themselves, shoveled in mountains of composted horse manure and wood-chip mulch and re-landscaped — twice! (30 words)

Example sentences (17)

Check anything that was on the bottom of the lake, suspended in the water or in a weedy area before moving to a different part of the lake or another water body.

Soils that are too alkaline can affect plants’ growth, leaving them weedy and underdeveloped.

Weedy colonizers that are large, fast-growing grasses such as giant reed (), giant miscanthus (Pennisetum purpureum) are undisputed ‘kings of grasses’ and sources of bioenergy.

Together, they dug out the weedy 940-square-foot front lawn and parkway by themselves, shoveled in mountains of composted horse manure and wood-chip mulch and re-landscaped — twice!

Whaley said they 'turned up next to us and drowned out our weedy rock 'n' roll with booming beats and massed chants.

After a promise to be back soon, the footage cuts to a rather weedy-looking anchor in the studio.

Signs of low oxygen in shallow weedy lakes as shiners on tip-ups dying quickly.

Wireworms are common in sod and readily migrate into garden beds adjacent to lawns or weedy pathways; along the border of such beds is a good place to put the bait potatoes.

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He’s pulled off the incredible magic trick of making those Oasis songs sound weedy and thin.

The small pool now glistens amid a soft ring of tiny white boneset flowers, like the weedy brook banked with milky field roses in the English painter Sir John Everett Millais’s “” (1851-52).

Indeed, by far the most infuriating part of last night’s concluding hour was waiting for Robin, a woman wise beyond her years, to wise up, get rid of her weedy fiancé, Matthew (Kerr Logan), and shack up with Strike.

Sadly, a wealthy donor paid $1,000,000 for a landscape architect to redesign the flower beds, and the blooming flowers were replaced with wild-looking weedy, overgrown plants, shrubs and small trees that are overwhelming.

After a major extinction event, usually only weedy species survive due to their ability to live in diverse habitats. citation Later, species diversify and occupy empty niches.

He also concluded there is little support to treat C. ruderalis as a separate species from C. sativa at this time, but more research on wild and weedy populations is needed because they were underrepresented in their collection.

Studies of prey utilization by largemouths show that in weedy waters, bass grow more slowly due to difficulty in acquiring prey.

Use of PCR-based molecular markers to identify weedy Amaranthus species.

When intervals between fires drop below 10 to 15 years, many chaparral species are eliminated and the system is typically replaced by non-native, invasive, weedy grassland.

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Common combinations with weedy

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "weedy" in a sentence?
An example: "Check anything that was on the bottom of the lake, suspended in the water or in a weedy area before moving to a different part of the lake or another water body." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "weedy" from authentic English texts.
What does "weedy" mean?
Weedy means: Abounding with weeds.
What are synonyms of "weedy"?
Common synonyms of "weedy" include: weedless, scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, thin, lean.
How many example sentences with "weedy" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "weedy", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.