How to Use overgrow in a Sentence

overgrow

verb

• The weeds have overgrown the garden.
• And some parts of the old path were overgrown with weeds and grass.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• The neighborhood has tried to clean up some of the empty lots that are overgrown with weeds and filled with trash and wildlife.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• Trees and brush have slightly overgrown the cemetery, but the headstones are still clear.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2023
• First, to be clear: Candida can overgrow in the body and cause problems.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, SELF, 10 July 2017
• In the wild, it is known to overgrow forest floors and tree trunks due to its aerial root system.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 26 Nov. 2022
• The Franklins’ home was mostly unchanged; the lawn had the same old broad-leaved trees, but the path down to the garage was overgrown with flowering shrubs.
  — Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• There were actually two coops and one very long run, which was overgrown with weeds.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• At the end of May, some yards across Wisconsin will be overgrown with wildflowers and other plants.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
• When the 200 activists and farm workers got there, the ranch was vacant, overgrown with weeds, and the farm headquarters empty, except for a stray cow.
  — Jack Nicas Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• The park was another new one: Before the riverbed was cleaned and its banks strengthened, this place was neglected, overgrown with reeds.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Come summer, ponds and lakes can be overgrown with vegetation that frogs love.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
• A few days of stubble almost overgrew a soul patch under his lip, like weeds overtaking a garden.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• The stately old buildings were chipped and faded or crumbling into the street, their courtyards and sidewalks overgrown and buckled.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• The roots grow into the felt to create a living ecosystem, eventually overgrowing the pockets to create a lush look.
  — Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The property feels almost abandoned: The grass has grown tall, bushes have overgrown, a mailbox is covered with pollen and spiderwebs.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• The team will have to flush the seawater regularly and keep it at the right temperature, or bacteria and algae will start to overgrow the Trichoplax and kill them, Prakash says.
  — Emily Underwood, The Atlantic, 8 June 2020
• The series opens with depictions of Boston landmarks such as the Custom House Tower, decrepit and overgrown with fungi.
  — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• If the runoff were to carry fertilizers or sewage rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, Smith said the reefs could also run the risk of an algae bloom, which can overgrow and smother corals.
  — Kate Selig, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• In this bleached and vulnerable state, they can be rapidly overgrown by another kind of algae called turf algae.
  — Andrew Mullen, National Geographic, 12 July 2016
• Many of the temples were later overgrown by jungle, while others remained important religious sites for the Khmer.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
• At his house, Heuberger led me through a garden overgrown with lavender and brambles, and into a sparsely furnished living room, where a baby’s play mat was the only splash of color.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Before that, the lot was overgrown with bushes and weeds, said Sandra Sanders, an Avalon Village volunteer who started the garden and maintains it today.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
• About a mile east of town was Downing’s Creek, which started at some springs six miles out on the prairie and came down into the valley through a swampy coulee overgrown with diamond willow and cat-tails, which we kids used to collect for torches.
  — Don Holm, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• The faces in the grocery store remain unfamiliar, the fence-line conversations with neighbors infrequent, the fence lines themselves overgrown with vines because there is no one there to tend them.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
• This equatorial region stretches from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn, and it's overgrown with orchids, bougainvillea, and birds-of-paradise — not to mention the sugarcane that keeps resort bars stocked in rum.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
• Bacteria in your body keep it in check, but if the system is off-balance, the yeast will overgrow and turn into a vaginal yeast infection, diaper rash, thrush or another condition.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• Now that those agricultural jobs, which included collecting firewood, have largely been abandoned by their children, the land is overgrown with dense foliage, which when dry is fuel for fires.
  — Joseph Wilson, ajc, 30 Mar. 2023
• The property has been revamped to resemble an elegant older hacienda overgrown with jungle vines and flowers from the rain forest.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Here and there, we’re shown signs of the human civilization that’s been destroyed: the carcasses of buildings, escalators, and elevated train tracks, overgrown with shrubbery.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024