How to Use tumbleweed in a Sentence

tumbleweed

noun
  • Tumbleweeds of dog hair no longer blow across our living room floor.
    — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Events like public protests roll past like tumbleweed and are gone from sight.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The desert is flat, boring and grows nothing but tumbleweeds.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Another placed more tumbleweed in the path of the dozens of extras milling about.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Vegas has been evolving since the very first pair of dice rolled down a craps table like desert tumbleweed.
    — Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Dry riverbeds of sand and tumbleweeds that snake their way through farmers’ fields now charge with water swelling up their banks.
    — Scott Smith, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Empty miles unfold along the highway, where tufts of tumbleweed gust by.
    — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
  • All that was missing was a tumbleweed blowing across the 50-yard line.
    — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Call the smiley-face mission a tumbleweed; call it a snowball.
    — Leslie Barker, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Flopping pervades the playoffs like tumbleweeds on a dusty desert plain.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Sometimes a tumbleweed rolled through.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For the past few decades, the tumbleweed town has been owned by members of a single family.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2018
  • The film feels as though it was put together the way a tumbleweed snatches up stray leaves and feathers.
    — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Some people spent part of their New Year's Eve trapped in tumbleweeds.
    — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2020
  • This Tumbleweed model, by virtue of its size, could house a homeless mother and child at the least.
    — Michael J. Fallon, The Mercury News, 4 May 2017
  • But tumbleweeds blow through the empty feed folders of personal friends.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2008
  • The Midwest should be known for tumbleweeds, not drifting plastic.
    — Max Dametz, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Does one just neglect the laundry, fur ball tumbleweeds from my winter-coat-shedding pup, and the cloudy glass shower door?
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Does one just neglect the laundry, fur ball tumbleweeds from my winter-coat-shedding pup, and the cloudy glass shower door?
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Untangling the tumbleweed of twinkle lights was like tiptoeing back in time.
    — Al Kemp, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018
  • These machine are tough on tricky pet hair, which can become matted into carpets and create tumbleweeds of fur on hard floors.
    — Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The series has varied its title sequence over the years, and the tumbleweed made its debut in the fourth episode of the first season.
    — Rich Heldenfels, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Along the way, they are assisted by Sage (Keanu Reeves — yes), who is a wise tumbleweed.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Along the way, they are assisted by Sage (Keanu Reeves – yes), who is a wise tumbleweed.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Along with the cast iron, Wolf brings long tongs, a wooden spoon, a cutting board, a knife and a natural tumbleweed-style fire starter.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2022
  • To lighten the endemic grim, pop colors frequently emerge among the sand and tumbleweeds.
    — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 23 Oct. 2019
  • In the wind its movements could look somewhat animated, so that the tumbleweed appeared to be a breathing body.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • My savings were dwindling, and there were tumbleweeds blowing through my business savings account.
    — Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In a matter of days, the baseball field could be covered in an ocean of prickly Russian thistle tumbleweeds.
    — Emilie Ikeda, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • So, the image of what looks like a small Martian tumbleweed had some social media users asking questions.
    — Fox News, 21 July 2022

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