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UK
/tˈʌmbəlwˌiːd/
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NOUN
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- bushy plant of western United States
How To Use tumbleweed In A Sentence
- But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness.
- Tumbleweed blows through bars that 12 months ago would have been fuggy and packed.
- He enters the classroom in a blinding heavenly light, to the accompaniment of whistling winds and rolling tumbleweed that usually accompanies Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti western.
- There wasn't any tumbleweed.
- In the comfy lounge, a 20-sided die rolled silently across a table like a tumbleweed.
- Charles half expected to hear at once sharp cracks of sticks and tumbleweed, to which he would coax himself were just tree squirrels, or other creatures.
- We're pacing one of the rivers here, tea-colored with a pintail duck on it and geese in a up against the clouds and rocks and tumbleweed, everything looking obdurate. Rodeo Days
- Mr. Elling used the big band for a Claude Thornhill-like ballad effect on "More Than You Know" and, more contemporarily, enmeshed himself within the brass and reed sections as he scatted "Tumbleweed" from Michael Brecker 's final album, "Pilgrimage". Birthday Wishes, Halloween Dreams
- Is that tumbleweed I see, billowing past the bar?
- If Australia had tumbleweed, it would be blowing down Olympic Boulevard right now.
