overplayed

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, the delight of amassing plants is more than outweighed by the grief of tending an overplanted garden.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2022

Now we have 39.5 million people gulping water — plus a lot of overplanted thirsty nut orchards in the arid San Joaquin Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021

If you enjoy this overplanted magenta flowering shrub, more power to you.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020

But basically, valley farmers have overplanted and drained their aquifers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2019

“Ain’t nothin’ excitin’ bout a dang weevil, or plantin’ fer seventeen-cent cotton and then cotton goes down to twelve cent cause everbody overplanted.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns