weed-covered

• “An amazing civilization — with a style of architecture unique in all the world — had once flourished in those weed-covered hills.”

  Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco

• “Two turkey vultures in the walnut tree, snake doctors over the thick green pond behind the hill, one bench, weed-covered, broken on one end —”

  Fictionaut: Appalachian Silence among the Dark Selves, parts 2, 3, & 4

• “But it seems a shame that his neglected, weed-covered, lonely grave is in danger of sliding into oblivion in the county he served so well.”

  The Guardian: Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave

• “It consisted of a weed-covered field, a battered metal slide and a half-buried tire.”

  Tamar Abrams: Swings Across the World

• “Behind him are the devastated blocks of the Lower Ninth Ward, an eerie mixture of abandoned lots, weed-covered foundations, and a few refurbished or newly built houses.”

  Wired: Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands

• “And it was in those weed-covered dunes that I found this gal.”

  grouse Diary Entry

• “Stainless-steel pots, for example, could last for millennia, especially if they were buried in the weed-covered mounds that used to be our kitchens.”

  HUMANS MAY NOT SURVIVE BUT NATURE WILL SURVIVE AND THRIVE

• “It is very windy, leaves blowing across the weed-covered drive.”

  2006 September 15 « Eclectics Anonymous

• “Some are standing in canoes, on the weed-covered ponds, spearing fish, while others are punting over the small intersecting streams, to examine their sunken fish-baskets.”

  A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

• “In the only one of the hitting stalls that was occupied, a middle-aged black man was methodically drilling drives out to the end of the weed-covered range.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dick Cheney Code

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