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
  • Nastanovich suggests this tremendous shift in attitude and approach stems directly from Malkmus, whose late-20s nervousness has eased, who has relaxed like a quarterback comfortable with lingering in the pocket a little longer.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Try that for 10 or 15 seconds, then let your arms join in, keeping your shoulders relaxed.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Tonight, the Knicks are on the second night of a back-to-back after hosting Milwaukee on Tuesday, while the Cavaliers come in rested.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • One of those losses came against a Charlotte Hornets team that had lost seven in a row and rested three of their starters.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Serve chilled, at room temperature, or gently warmed in a 300°F oven.
    — Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2026
  • We’ve also got chilled chocolate pies, citrusy custards, and more than a few excellent candidates for breakfast the next morning.
    — Joe Sevier, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Nov. 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
  • That's a casualty of last year's government shutdown, which idled hundreds of government price-checkers so prices from October 2025 were never recorded for comparison.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The price of computers and smartphones would skyrocket as electronic manufacturers idled their factories.
    — Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

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“Vegetated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vegetated. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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