How to Use weedy in a Sentence

weedy

adjective
  • This plant can be weedy in frost-free climates.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Fill bare or weedy spots in the lawn with the help of summer rains.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
  • Toss these out with the yard waste, along with weedy plants that are bearing seeds.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Is there anything that can be done to remove the weedy grass?
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • If your garden bed is weedy, pull the weeds before mulching.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Cypress vine self-seeds and can become weedy.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 May 2026
  • Northern pike have been active on the weedy flats and drop-off zones.
    — Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • July is a good time to fill in bare or now weedy spots left by cold, drought or pests.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2018
  • The lake is dotted with islands, rocky points, clay banks and weedy bays.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • The same process is used to establish a new lawn over bare (or weedy) soil.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 July 2024
  • Keep weedy areas of your yard cut back to deprive them of a place to call home.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The same process is used to establish a new lawn over bare (or weedy) soil.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The same process is used to establish a new lawn over bare (or weedy) soil.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
  • Now is a good time to get these weedy areas under control.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
  • July is a good time to fill in bare or now weedy spots left by winter, drought or pests.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • Black crappies are found in large ponds, as well as clear, deep, weedy, and cold reservoirs.
    — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • What’s the difference between a lush food plot and a weedy patch of dirt?
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Spring creeks tend to be weedy with flowing green plants like elodea and watercress.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
  • Moreover, the subject is weedy and boring.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
  • The attraction is adding a space for weedy sea dragons, Pye said.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • To help prevent borers, keep weedy areas around the garden mowed well.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 17 June 2026
  • On weedy shorelines, beds will begin just outside the deepest weeds.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2020
  • During a recent tour, a black piece of plastic the size of a barrel marred the weedy edge of the pond.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2017
  • To do the least amount of harm to your surroundings while weeding, pull out the plants by their roots or mulch the weedy area.
    — Kate Puhala, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Is there a weedy section of lawn that could be replaced with a perennial garden?
    — Monica Cardoza, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Keep yards tidy—overgrowth, dead plants, and weedy driveways are neighborhood no-nos.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
  • African daisies bobbed among aloe vera plants in a weedy space between an alley and a median.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The empty swimming pool and weedy basketball courts gave the place a kind of haunted charm.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • Researchers sequenced the genomes of leafy and weedy sea dragons and compared them with other fish.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • From there, my partner and I walked to the weedy banks of the Zimbabwean canyon.
    — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023

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