vegetated

past tense of vegetate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vegetated Installing and maintaining them can get expensive, however, and some fire-prone areas are too thickly vegetated or rainy to benefit from their surveillance. — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 20 July 2026 We were parked alongside a remote and heavily vegetated waterway called Furlong Creek, which was the site of another one of Johnson’s experiments. — Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025 Contrary to the arid badlands of Ledi-Geraru today, millions of years ago, the area was a lush, vegetated landscape with rivers and shallow lakes. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vegetated
Verb
  • The former Shark Tank star has relaxed his watch rule now, sporting an Apple Watch these days for the data.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Towson University professor Martha Kumar said that presidential travel during a campaign can be intense and that presidents often have passengers who can keep the environment relaxed even as the work continues.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Bills are rested, coming off their bye after road wins over the Rams and Raiders.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The defense rested its evidence presentation after Castillo’s testimony.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The experiments then moved to Tallinn, Estonia, where the films were chilled to minus 438 degrees Fahrenheit under intense magnetic fields.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • High mortgage rates have chilled the housing industry, which in turn pressures demand for the paints and coatings Sherwin-Williams sells.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea.
    — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2026
  • Further on, sandy-colored cows lazed in the mid-morning sun.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The price of computers and smartphones would skyrocket as electronic manufacturers idled their factories.
    — Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • In August, Silfab briefly idled production and later furloughed some workers because of production material shortages the company said would last three to four weeks.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026

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“Vegetated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vegetated. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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