crabbiness

Example Sentences

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Cue another round of snobby harrumphing about the inclusion of non-Power 4 schools like James Madison and Tulane, as if those schools play on crabgrass fields with dirt patches and donkeys.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

The transformations aren’t about turning crabgrass into ryegrass.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023

A: Stiltgrass, like crabgrass, is an annual, so the key is to provide a lush lawn to squeeze it out and break the annual cycle of weed seeding.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020

Pre-emergent herbicides are available for crabgrass, Japanese stiltgrass and other spring-germinating plants.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2020

As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta’s cancer cells could infect the scientists working on them?

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot