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How to use weed in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Weed means any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. Example: “If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.”

Examples of weed by meaning

nounAny plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

  • If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
  • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
  • Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3

nounCannabis.

  • I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.2015 March 14, Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the 2015 Gridiron Dinner

verbTo remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).

  • I weeded my flower bed.
  • As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank.2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

verbTo systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

  • We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
  • Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.2003, Juris Dilevko, Lisa Gottlieb, “Weed to achieve: a fundamental part of the public library mission?”, in Library Collections...

nounAn article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

  • He wore a weed on his hat.

More sentences with weed

  • If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.From the entry picture
  • Mulch your vegetable garden to retain moisture and keep weeds down.From the entry mulch
  • The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.From the entry overrun
  • It's a lot of work just to break even and keep the weeds down.From the entry break even
  • Hey man, I want some weed. —I'll sort you out, mate.From the entry sort out
  • She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.From the entry sixties
  • I had the pasties after smoking all that weed on Friday.From the entry pasties
  • Mowing the lawn and chopping the weeds topped his to-do list of chores.From the entry to-do list
  • The regrown weed is almost as big now as before I mowed it down.From the entry regrown
  • The cultivators were out among the row crops, keeping the weeds in check.From the entry cultivator
  • The farmer reached into his shed and retrieved an old hink to cut down the overgrown weeds.From the entry hink
  • The weeds have long run rampant in the garden and it would be difficult to regain control.From the entry run rampant
  • I didn't have any weed, so Joe smoked me out with his stash.From the entry smoke out
  • The twins grew like weeds: it seemed we were buying clothes every few weeks.From the entry grow like a weed
  • Get a load of my no-fidelity radio: my neighbor is singing off-tune while he weeds his garden.From the entry no fidelity
  • We used a poison to kill the weeds.From the entry poison
  • The weed has a pernicious influence on local crops.From the entry pernicious
  • Weeds are rampant in any neglected garden.From the entry rampant
  • Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.From the entry fried
  • To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior.From the entry weed out
  • Hey man, can you hook me up with some weed?From the entry hook up
  • We tore up the weeds from the allotment.From the entry tear up
  • You have to chop out all the weeds.From the entry chop out
  • Our garden is overgrown with weeds.From the entry garden
  • This weed straddles the entire garden.From the entry straddle
  • Have you ever smoked wet weed?From the entry wet weed
  • For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.From the entry hoe
  • The air smelled of weed, but only a little, thanks to Cara's well-made and well-used sploof.2024 September 10, Jordan K. Casomar, “chapter twenty-seven ZEKE”, in How to Lose a Best Friend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry sploof
  • Illegal weed tended to be more expensive where antiweed enforcement was more vigorous.2022, Robin S. Goldstein, Daniel A. Sumner, Can Legal Weed Win?, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry antiweed
  • Like, you know, THC levels in weed, how they're more potent?2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry next-gen
  • From cutting 2dollars off a dime bag of weed from touching 6 figures at 16.2021 November 20, Bob Mehr, “Memphis rapper Yo Gotti doubles down with new set”, in The Commercial Appeal, volume 180, number 323, page 6A. From the entry hustla

Meaning of weed

  1. noun Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
  2. noun Underbrush; low shrubs.
  3. noun Cannabis.

Full definition of weed

Questions about weed in a sentence

How do you use weed in a sentence?
Weed is used as a noun and verb. For example: “If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.”
What is a short sentence with weed?
“I weeded my flower bed.”
What does weed mean?
Weed means any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weed (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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