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Grass-grown

Grass-grown \Grass"-grown`\, a. Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.

Usage examples of "grass-grown".

Here and there a muffled lepero whisked round the corner of a grass-grown street before the ringing hoofs of his horse.

To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

A shiny four-door sedan turned off the paved drive and moved slowly along the narrow, grass-grown way that once had been a graveled drive almost up to the bush-and-weed-shrouded bandstand itself.

Escorted by the social worker, the district nurse, the home help, the abrasive yet not ungentle niece, Letty is escorted down the unswept, grass-grown basement stairs into her own scarcely used front door that someone with a key has remembered to unbolt from inside for her return.