Across the street, where houses used to be, was a lot overrun with weeds.

A small garden, overrun with weeds, held prominence behind the home.

The tracks and platforms, unused since 1967, are overrun with weeds.

She lacked the energy to work, which meant that her fertile farmland became overrun with weeds.

During the summer, the garden became a neighborhood eyesore, overrun with weeds, garbage and rats.

If it wasn't for his weekly trips to the house, the garden would be shriveled and overrun with weeds.

The straid was overrun with weeds, and its buildings were in a forlorn state of decay.

On the other, clay houses have been abandoned and are falling down, while the fields are overrun with weeds.

The field was overrun with weeds, without an outfield fence and was used for soccer games.

All that remain are decaying stone facades overrun with weeds, vines and poison ivy.

The area was overgrown, populated by wild pigs, overrun with weeds and planted with orchards.

All of it was overrun with weeds with the exception of a small area around the barracks and the gravel road leading in and out.

The lot facing Harway Avenue has been overrun with weeds and vermin; the city had to fence the area to keep it from garbage dumping.

There is nothing there, only the ghostly voices of the dead hovering around the smashed and sunken gravestones in a cemetery overrun with weeds.

A flagstone-lined patch, now overrun with weeds, had once functioned as a public square, but the village lacked the time or the resources to maintain the space.

Hindu temples have fared similarly: their inner sanctums are overrun with weeds, crumbling pillars revealing only a head or an arm of a deity.

When friends bring photographs from their trips to Kyoto, I often think that Gion has thinned out like a poorly kept garden, increasingly overrun with weeds.

Just a few years ago, Lincoln Terrace Park, a green expanse on the edge of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was overrun with weeds, prostitutes and drug dealers.

The book's second half describes Hemingway's return to South Jackson, where once-manicured neighborhoods sag in disrepair and the parking lot of the rebuilt shopping center is overrun with weeds.

Most of the neighborhoods appear to be the victims of bombardment - houses burned and vacant, buildings crumbling, whole city blocks overrun with weeds and the carcasses of discarded automobiles.

Detectives were still trying to learn why Mr. McMahon had visited the downtrodden block, which is lined with one- and two-story warehouses and vacant lots overrun with weeds.

It broke Lara's heart to think of her daughter being buried in this desolate place that was overrun with weeds and inhabited by jungle reptiles that slithered unseen in the underbrush.

The old Putnam Line tracks - overrun with weeds and wildflowers - go for three delightful miles through the heart of the park into some of the quietest spots in New York City.

But where the boat only needed a coat of paint, the house needed a new roof as well, and the garden that had once run neatly along the front of the house was overrun with weeds.

Its roofs were tiled with antique stones covered over deep with moss, each little window looked with a myriad strange cut panes on the gardens shaped with quaint devices and overrun with weeds.