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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "tumbleweed" in a sentence

    tumbleweed example sentences

    tumbleweed


    1. protecting used condoms and the drifting tumbleweed


    2. Litter! Did he see garbage? William crawled a few feet and stretched to grab a plastic wrapper that was rolling like tumbleweed over the dry bare soil that was once the bottom of a stream


    3. When the door of the plane opened on Tuesday, I couldn’t help but expect what I had seen so often before…a great tumbleweed of crumpled newspapers from Roy’s daily reading, armfuls of wonderful Christmas treats from Sulka ties and Tiffany scarves to those fantastic singing bears with the red noses, and that visible sense of tired but happy satisfaction from having had a good trip


    4. This picked up the mood and I followed in with, Tumbling Tumbleweed and The Big Rock Candy Mountain,


    5. Sands and and occassional tumbleweed


    6. His thick, twisted moustache was no match for the bushy, tumbleweed of a beard which went down to the top of his chest


    7. The old man pitched and rolled across the queen-size bed like an iron tumbleweed, causing Vinnie to squeeze off three shots


    8. Gun Boss of Tumbleweed


    9. saw nothing but sand, rock, the rolling tumbleweed, and


    10. The house was terribly lonely without a dog making noise like a typewriter on the kitchen floor or a cat blowing through it like silk tumbleweed over rose-patterned carpets, or the golden bird throbbing in its golden jail

    11. And they came from the cabbage tenements and subways, and they found much rest and vacation in the company of silent men from the tumbleweed states who knew how to use silences so they filled you up with peace after long years crushed in tubes, tins and boxes in New York


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    Synonyms for "tumbleweed"

    amaranthus albus amaranthus graecizans tumbleweed cycloloma atriplicifolium winged pigweed russian cactus russian thistle russian tumbleweed salsola kali tenuifolia

    "tumbleweed" definitions

    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 annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds


    bushy plant of western United States