gone to seed
Example Sentences
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This Batman has gone to seed, bearded, shaggy gray hair rattling around decayed Wayne Manor until he’s roused from his torpor by the twin Flashes.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023
To save yourself additional work in the garden, hold off on adding any weeds, especially those that have gone to seed, which could potentially sprout and spread wherever you place your final compost.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022
What remains are the rusting husks of a brutalist, industrial cityscape gone to seed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2022
Which did you film first: the prologue scenes where your character is neat and trim, or the main sequences where he has gone to seed?
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021
He was in his late fifties, however, and his reddish hair had been bleached almost colorless now, like a dandelion gone to seed.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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