Use overgrown in a sentence
Sentences ending with overgrown
- We followed a rough path, evidently cut by a camping party in some past season, but now overgrown. [9]
- Paradise overgrown! [9]
More example sentences with the word overgrown in them
- If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
- A sand-hill overgrown with tamarisk bushes rose beside the road, and thither the leader guided the party of convicts. [10]
- The monument, overgrown with blossoming vines, before which she paused, was a singular structure, that had been built of brick between her own and her uncle's garden. [10]
- And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
- All about the water lay marsh-ground overgrown with leafless bushes, rushes, tall grasses, and reeds. [10]
- The farmer's beard was overgrown, and the eyes looked up at him as from caverns of suffering below the bandage. [9]
- This city seems to me like a luxurious, overgrown hothouse. [9]
- It was too thick for game, there was no roadway leading anywhere, but only an overgrown path, used in the old days by Indians. [11]
- The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
- There is nothing there but an assemblage of shabby booths and fruit-stands, and an ancient stone tower in ruins and overgrown with ivy. [4]
- A wall bordered the greater portion of the road, which often led through a ravine overgrown with brushwood and past bastions and other solid masonry. [10]
- Two "for rent" signs had fallen successively from the overgrown hedge: some fifty feet back from the road, hidden by undergrowth and in the tenebrous shades of huge larches and cedars, stood a hideous, two-storied house with a mansard roof, once painted dark red. [9]
- The next morning Rhodopis went into the garden--the same into which we led our readers during the lifetime of Amasis-and found Bartja and Sappho in an arbor overgrown with vines. [10]
- At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees. [2]
- But in most of these great houses maids have replaced the butlers and footmen; mansions have been given over for hospitals; gardeners are fighting in the trenches, and courts and drives of country places are often overgrown with grass and weeds. [9]
- The hotel, a much overgrown and altered farm-house, stood, surrounded by great trees, in an ancient clearing that sloped gently to the water's edge, where an old-fashioned, octagonal summerhouse overlooked a landing for rowboats. [9]
- The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway. [2]
- The house itself is all balconies, galleries, odd windows half overgrown and hidden by ivy, and a large gilt clock-face adds a touch of piquancy to the antique charm of the facade. [4]
- If Honora took her book under the maple tree in the yard, she was confronted with that hideous wooden sign "To Let" on the Dwyer's iron fence opposite, and the grass behind it was unkempt and overgrown with weeds. [9]
- This veneering process has been successfully employed on the Missouri River; and in some cases they have so covered themselves with sediments, and have become so overgrown with willows, that they may be regarded as permanent. [5]
- The vehicle soon drew up in front of the whitewashed inn, surrounded on three sides by a trellised arbor, overgrown with figs and vine. [10]
- At a little distance from the fort, a silent testimony of siege, the stumpy, cleared fields were overgrown with weeds, tall and rank, the corn choked. [9]
- A moment later Cushnan Di was leading them through a copse of pawpaw trees to a secluded garden by the Aqueduct, overgrown with vines and ancient rose trees, and cherry shrubs. [11]
- And presently they came to a wire fence overgrown with Virginia creeper, which divided the shaded road from a wide lawn. [9]
- Slowly they went back together through the paths of the tangled garden, which had doubtless seen many dramas, and the courses changed of many lives: overgrown and outworn now, yet love was loth to leave it. [9]
- It was rather a series of small clearings, running up into the forest, much overgrown with bushes and briers, and not unromantic. [4]
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