(n.) Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retail Gazette in the UK has warned that "there is a danger that larger spaces will turn into empty buildings, with only tumbleweed passing through them".
(2) "When Doves Cry – it's nice to hear When Doves Cry again…" Tumbleweed.
(3) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
(4) As the tumbleweed rolled in and out of shot … somewhere in the distance a forlorn sounding church bell clanged.
(5) Aboriginal leaders presented a detailed and carefully crafted proposal for use of the newly acquired federal power but were met with tumbleweeds.
(6) On Saturday, tumbleweed blew past the banks of desks: those fair-weather foreigners had left the party.
(7) It is now a tumbleweed town, full of charity shops, payday loan stores and greasy food eateries.
(8) But like tumbleweed, Labour policies put down no roots to anchor ideas of collective provision and social protection.
(9) This picture has all the traits of a well-rounded photograph: there are the jack rabbits on the fence, which make it look as if there is movement; the car that’s really dead, including the tumbleweed to one side and the beat-up old licence plate; the sky is totally noncommittal; the horizon is mute.
(10) It will help so much when the comedian looks at the crowd because even if there’s tumbleweed blowing across the crowd they’ll look happy enough to see it.
(11) If being all but wiped out at last year’s general election and being on the wrong side of the EU referendum result weren’t bad enough, delegates now had to share their party conference with tumbleweed.
(12) Certainly, there are cultural references in the show that will undoubtedly tumbleweed across international cinema screens, and Winterbottom says they removed ones that he thought wouldn't register abroad.
(13) We respond with crickets, tumbleweeds and a cynical move to delay and limit our own party debates.” His presidential rival Bernie Sanders reportedly told journalists that he agreed with O’Malley that the primary process was rigged.
(14) In downtown Battle Mountain between the Shoshone, Battle Mountain and Sheep Creek mountain ranges of Nevada , a gust of hot wind flings tumbleweed and debris across Broad Street, and a sign outside the visitor center shows temperatures in the mid 90s.
(15) Russian thistle (Salsola kali), the most common plant referred to as "tumbleweed" in the western United States, can cause a dermatitis in persons who come into direct contract with it.
(16) If you need to explain it to your elderly relatives, tumbleweeds blowing past as you do so, it's a reference to the pop star's infamous 'twerking' dance routine at the MTV VMA awards and elsewhere.
(17) This tumbleweed town bears virtually no resemblance to the golden age locals recall of near full employment, a bustling town centre and happy times at the funfair on Aberavon beach.
(18) 10.41pm GMT Lots of Sky reports accompanied by nothing but tumbleweed outside assorted stadiums.
(19) I am surprised at the honourable lady’s argument that we are not busy,” he said wearily, before the tumbleweed carried him away.
(20) Why not go the whole hog and quote from Marx and Lenin, too?” Public service winners and losers in spending review Read more Tumbleweed began to roll through the Labour benches as false consciousness won the day.
Weed
Definition:
(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(3) The condition has occurred for many years and has been thought to have been associated with ingestion of Crofton weed (Eupatorium adenophorum).
(4) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(5) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(6) The coalition claims that authorities were forcing teachers, businessmen and students to weed the fields or pick cotton or face fines of up to 1 million soum (about £210) for university students.
(7) Bob McCulloch, the St Louis County prosecutor who oversaw the state grand jury inquiry that looked into Brown’s death, insisted that discrimination by law enforcement was a rarity but said authorities must “weed it out”.
(8) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(9) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(10) The substances studied generally proved very active against the weeds tested and showed marked specificity of action towards Setaria and Echinochloa.
(11) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(12) In a statement on Wednesday , he said that he will criticise the Met for "the routine gathering and retention of information that was collateral, not linked to an operation or the prevention of crime and it should have been disposed of as part of a weeding process."
(13) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(14) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(15) We have the know-how to track organisations that achieve the best results for patients, and weed out those that don't come up to scratch."
(16) After weeding, planting or harvesting, people attempt to make money.
(17) Animal Practice is a Universal Television production based on an irreverent New York veterinarian, played by Justin Kirk of Weeds and Angels in America.
(18) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(19) Weed and water samples collected from river water abstraction points, reservoirs, tap water supplies, and animal water troughs fed from this supply all contained low levels of iodine-125.
(20) There has been a troubling several decade-long pattern of denial on the part of the seed patent holders over the likelihood of resistance emerging - for example Monsanto authors of a 1997 paper asserted weed resistance would never happen.