How to Use overgrown in a Sentence

overgrown

adjective

• The garden is overgrown with weeds.
• He acts like an overgrown child.
• The buck bedded near an overgrown washout that ran through the corn.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
• Damien described the role to me as sort of like an overgrown Pied Piper.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• The overgrown lot was cleared and the weak foundation shored up.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 16 Apr. 2022
• Some of the trails are a bit overgrown, but navigating the trees is part of the fun.
  — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
• Just be sure to bring plenty of light for the walk back as the trail is a bit overgrown and unmarked.
  — Kyle Ellison, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
• The land was, and some still is, an old, overgrown apple orchard.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
• Sarah's body had been found in an area of overgrown brush, about 300 feet away from her car in the school parking lot.
  — Lauren Clark, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
• Long term, overgrown nails can lead to arthritis and tendonitis in their feet, legs and back.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• The massive estate was somewhat overgrown in some areas in the 20 months since the murders.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
• This marshy and overgrown area became known as the Slashes, since the only way to traverse it was by slashing through the brush.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
• The before shot shows the canine perched on the back of an armchair, with her curly coat of golden hair looking adorably wild and overgrown.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• In any case, the maze by then had become extremely overgrown and hard to manage.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• On the overgrown hill behind the shop, where seedlings were stored waiting to be planted, Perea had the crew create an outdoor refuge too.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• The camp is filled with overgrown boys and girls falling under the spells (or into the clutches) of father figures.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• One picture is of an overgrown tree along a puddly, potholed dirt road.
  — Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
• On Wednesday, the grass on the property was tall, and the shrubs outside the caretaker’s cabin were bushy and overgrown.
  — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• The only control for an overgrown lawn is sanding to fill in the voids between the runners or installing new sod.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• Pruning may take longer with an overgrown tree because no more than a third of the branches should be taken out at once.
  — oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2022
• The overgrown plot had been a community garden back around 2010, but it had been abandoned for a few years.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2022
• Volunteers are needed to mow and rake overgrown grass and leaves and scrub markers and headstones.
  — Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
• There’s a house tour, an al fresco dinner, a game of doubles pingpong and a walk in the overgrown meadow nearby.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2022
• What are black sesame seeds? Black and white sesame seeds come from the same plant, the Sesamum indicum: a bushy green plant, reminiscent of overgrown basil.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2023
• Vacant lots are left overgrown and littered with garbage.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2022
• Judge blasts 72-year-old cancer patient over his overgrown lawn.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2022
• One was for overgrown weeds that predated his tenure by two months.
  — Brian Eason, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• Those roots had been long overgrown, buried under mediocrity.
  — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Aisle, formerly an overgrown alley which stretches from 14th Street to 12th Street in Parkside, should be completed by the end of the year.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 28 Sep. 2021
• The club was closed in 2014 and became overgrown, some neighbors testified in public hearings over the past year.
  — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024