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
His connection with the Force has gone to seed.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 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
The Plant had gone to seed, and we had swept every tiny fleck into a labeled envelope, which had then been placed in a labeled jar, which had then been locked in the library cabinet.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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