overgrown

Example Sentences

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In September 2025, the Shrine Pool could have been an overgrown hiking trail.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The playground is overgrown, and the modular buildings stand quiet and empty.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

For example, in the early 1990s, he and his colleagues examined standard recommendations for conserving reed beds—important habitats for birds that become overgrown with trees over time.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

In “The Oyster Diaries,” Delery runs into Claude, a “portly fifty-year-old” living in seclusion in an overgrown plantation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Biology, his main subject, seemed to be a wild, overgrown garden of a discipline, lacking any systematic organizing principles.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee