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• He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie.From the entry deep down
• The farmer reached into his shed and retrieved an old hink to cut down the overgrown weeds.From the entry hink
• The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.From the entry disuse
• The woods were completely overgrown with multiflora.From the entry multiflora
• Our garden is overgrown with weeds.From the entry garden
• Note how the microstromatolite and surrounding basalt are overgrown by the biofilm and how hyphae protrude.2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microstromatolite
• In the large neglected garden, formal paths outlined with white stones were overgrown with bunny-grass.2014, Ailsa Fabian, A Shining Space: A Daughter's Life, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry bunny grass
• The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.2003, Ernst Jünger, translated by Michael Hofmann, Storm of Steel, Penguin, published 2004, page 41. From the entry plantain
• Worse was the overgrown persimmon tree outside the window of my old room.2002, Carole Lawrence, Looking for Mary Gabriel, page 139. From the entry overred
• We continue to move upward, climbing higher and higher across overgrown ledges along the wall.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 535. From the entry upward
• Betta splendens comes from further India, where it inhabits stagnant, overgrown waters.1975, The Aquarist and Pondkeeper. From the entry finnage
• Here we recognise the dreary, dank, desolate, overgrown, hemlocky complex at once.1969, John Jones, “To Ripen or to Wither?”, in John Keats’s Dream of Truth, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., →ISBN, section IV…. From the entry hemlocky
• Arches, overgrown with yet unblooming roses, crumbled in their time-stained beauty.1907, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle. From the entry unblooming
• The impact of clearing overgrown greenery is a necessary evil that must be tackled - for a variety of reasons.2025 October 29, Ryan Hall, “Hubble prevents toil and trouble”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 38. From the entry necessary evil
• As I tentatively reverse, I have a sense of foreboding, unsure I’ll be able to control this overgrown mechanical beast.2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry hatchback
• The actress Naomi Watts posted on Instagram an image of her feet, with seashells positioned to mimic overgrown toenails.2020 June 23, Lauren Mechling, “Goodbye, Pedicures. Hello, Peels.”, in The New York Times. From the entry despo
• This overgrown and unremarkable little swamp is terra nullius.2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN. From the entry terra nullius
• An overgrown nosebeard, brown hairs overlapping onto his white chinstrap.2017, Benyakir B. Horowitz, Manual Automata, page 118. From the entry nosebeard
• Jeez man, one of them might say, a smug overgrown teenager with an Astros cap, what a freak.2016, Toby Vieira, Marlow’s Landing, John Murray, →ISBN. From the entry collegeboy
• The left diatom is overgrown by fungi and irregular organic matter, but structures resembling areolaes are visible through the organic cover.2015 July 17, “Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – A New Type of Cryptoendolithic Fungi”, in PLOS…. From the entry areolaes
• Ancestrula overgrown by increasingly larger autozooids relatively early during astogeny.2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry autozooids
• Rusty wrought-iron gates and cramped once-painted wooden enclosures bordered and defined scrabbly little plots of Astroturf and overgrown weeds.2014, Denise Chávez, The King and Queen of Comezón, →ISBN, page 276. From the entry scrabbly
• The odor of spleef was much stronger here , and the granite stairway was neither overgrown nor dirty .1990, Bill Ransom, Jaguar, →ISBN. From the entry spleef
• The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum.1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Europe in 1960”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry mesembryanthemum
• The cheerless sight, sometimes met, of land once cleared and ploughed, now overgrown by the stunted wodgil, pointed a moral.1921, Gordon Taylor, The Agricultural Bank and Industries Assistance Board, Or, Government Loans to Farmers in Western Australia, page 62. From the entry wodgil
• On the heels of the little lop-sided man appeared an overgrown dolt of a fat youth, followed by another youth.1915, Jack London, chapter 5, in Mutiny of the Elsinore. From the entry on the heels of
• Knee-high grass in overgrown gardens, clorty curtains, and a general unkempt, down at heel feel gave lie to the notion of community spirit.2022 November 1, Jim Spence, “The Kirkton I remember is gone – but there are still too many good folk to let rioting neds win”, in The…. From the entry clorty
• And he sets industriously to the task of cleaning, renovating and exploring his overgrown property with the steady uncircumspect conviction of a true handyman.2009 May 24, Scott Bradfield, “Upstate”, in New York Times. From the entry uncircumspect
• The wide sandy plain of the valley, some five miles long, which slopes imperceptibly down to Issik Pakhta, is overgrown with minute bushes.1939, Wilhelm Filchner, “Issik Pakhta—The Sarts—Good-bye to Borodijin”, in E. O. Lorimer, transl., A Scientist in Tartary: from the…. From the entry innumerable
• He is an overgrown adolescent – as demonstrated in the sublime set piece in which he dances with an inflatable globe, dreaming of being "emperor of the world".2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC. From the entry set piece
• Like all the other houses in the street, it was a Victorian terrace with a postage stamp of an overgrown garden between its front wall and the street.2016, Jane Killick, Mind Power: Perceivers #4. From the entry terrace
• Our bikes are where we left them at the entrance to an overgrown snicket of yew, ivy and Hart's-tongue fern, through which a stream dribbles its way into the Ouse.2018, Will Eaves, Murmur, Canongate, published 2018, page 89. From the entry snicket
• Neither tortelloni—overgrown tortellini—in a basiled tomato sauce with cream drizzled over at the last minute nor an aristocracy of sea creatures in nests of thin capellini pasta is especially moving.1985 January 28, Gael Greene, “That’s Italian”, in New York, volume 18, number 4, →ISSN, page 37, column 2. From the entry basiled

Meaning of overgrown

1. adjective Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
2. adjective Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.

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Questions about overgrown in a sentence

How do you use overgrown in a sentence?

Overgrown is used as an adjective. For example: “He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie.”

What is a short sentence with overgrown?

“Our garden is overgrown with weeds.”

What does overgrown mean?

Overgrown means having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.