Sentence examples for overgrown from inspiring English sources

It led to the main sentiment of Blake's title track: I want to be around, still, "when everything's overgrown".

It's a few hours' bus ride away via towns such as Carmelo, from where launches zip day-trippers from Buenos Aires across the River Plate to marvel at rusting fishing boats and overgrown cobblestone streets.

There are always a couple of antennae being worked on, faces upturned to the scorching sun like overgrown Wall-Es.

But the monuments that line Washington's National Mall were bustling with tourists, as maintenance workers hastily tended to the overgrown grass - six-inches long in places.

And yet James Blake won with Overgrown, in effect a contemporary vocal jazz album that also drew on a host of modern folk traditions.

This weekend people from all over Australia, black and white, will converge on Myall Creek – a tiny place with two overgrown tennis courts and a memorial hall – that you'd hardly call a town in a small part of north-west NSW known evocatively, given its violent history, as New England.

Personally, I've stuck with the show for the imaginative plotlines and strong characterisation – and very much despite the irksome "medieval" costumes (groan), stupid dragons (eye roll) and risible levels of female nudity that reduce it to soft porn for schoolboys (overgrown and otherwise) presumably too emotionally stunted to lust properly over, say, Lara Croft.

However, her disjointed 33-minute speech – in which she described President Barack Obama as an "overgrown little boy who is acting kinda spoiled", and declared "the man can only ride you when your back is bent" – received poor reviews even from some conservatives.

Weavers' dwellings were overgrown, the thatch alive with birds, snakes and insects, while roussettes – bats small and multi-coloured as butterflies – flew in and out of earth-mounds that had been homes; hunched vultures surveyed tracts of land in which the human voice was stilled.

Palin's speech, in which she described President Barack Obama as an "overgrown little boy who is acting kinda spoiled", received poor reviews from several conservative commentators, while Republican operatives cast doubt on her latest claim to be considering a presidential campaign of her own.

The path through the woods was surprisingly overgrown, suggesting that relatively few people have used it in recent weeks.