Tumbleweed

Definition

tumbleweed /'tʌmblwi:d/ n [U] (ေျမာက္အေမရိကသဲကႏၲာရေဒသမ်ား၌ ေပါက္သည့္) ညိႇဳးေျခာက္သြားသည့္အခါ ပင္စည္ရင္းမွျပတ္၍ေလတိုက္ရာသို႔အကိုင္း အခက္မ်ားလံုးေထြးလိမ့္သြားတတ္ေသာခ်ံဳပင္။

Examples

1. ‘Her eyes fell on some dried tumbleweed about a mile away
2. and she half-watched it roll lazily across the desert.’
3. ‘At some times of day I half expect to see tumbleweed drifting around the sterile
4. impersonal
5. weird space that has been falsely created.’
6. ‘A tumbleweed floats by.’
7. ‘Charles half expected to hear at once sharp cracks of sticks and tumbleweed
8. to which he would coax himself were just tree squirrels
9. or other creatures.’
10. ‘If Australia had tumbleweed
11. it would be blowing down Olympic Boulevard right now.’
12. ‘They can become ghost towns with the metaphorical tumbleweed bouncing past the shuttered restaurants.’
13. ‘I could've sworn that I saw tumbleweed blowing across the newly waxed marble floor.’
14. ‘Is there tumbleweed blowing down the main street.’
15. ‘The town looked like any deserted town
16. all boarded windows with a shutter or two clanging in the wind
17. various pieces of litter around
18. and a tumbleweed breezing past.’
19. ‘A lonely plastic bag made it's way like tumbleweed down the vacant street.’
20. ‘Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish
21. rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.’
22. ‘To soldiers
23. every broken-down car is a potential bomb; every tumbleweed may disguise an artillery shell set to explode.’
24. ‘Silence reigned but for tumbleweed passing through and then the sound of a far-off wolf howling.’
25. ‘Alas
26. when we checked into the virtual village
27. all we could find was some virtual tumbleweed blowing across the square.’
28. ‘He enters the classroom in a blinding heavenly light
29. to the accompaniment of whistling winds and rolling tumbleweed that usually accompanies Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti western.’
30. ‘Even tumbleweed can't go on blowing down dusty streets for ever.’
31. ‘She caught a couple of rats and I roasted them over some burning tumbleweed.’
32. ‘Is that tumbleweed I see
33. billowing past the bar?’
34. ‘There wasn't any tumbleweed.’
35. ‘Had I been in the Wild West
36. the saloon doors would have swung with an eerie creak; tumbleweed would have blown past.’