overgrown

Example Sentences

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Its entrance is sealed with a crude brick-and-mud wall, and an overgrown bougainvillea, bright with pink blooms, spills over the front boundary.

From BBC

The Radical Road itself has become overgrown without usage for years but HES says the wider path network is now "highly degraded" from the pressure of user numbers outweighing the capacity of the paths.

From BBC

The signage signaling the museum’s presence along one of Pasadena’s busiest thoroughfares was underwhelming and easy to miss, and the landscaping along Colorado Boulevard was overgrown and wide open.

From Los Angeles Times

Where the old sanitorium stands watch above the river, overgrown, now only ghosts and damp stone.

From Salon

And the overall decline is why my husband and I decided to create our own wildflower meadow from an overgrown arable field.

From BBC