11.   For seven weeks this summer, a new crew pulled weeds, did cleanups, and kept journals of their work.

12.   Graffiti is being washed away, the windows of abandoned buildings are being boarded up, and volunteers are pulling weeds from little-used parking lots.

13.   He once told a Japanese newspaper that getting rid of unproductive employees is like pulling weeds.

14.   Her clean and simple clothes were better suited for stocking shelves in a department store than pulling weeds or picking vegetables.

15.   I edge regularly, trim and pull the weeds.

16.   I went over to get a closer look, and started pulling a few weeds.

17.   If parents are called in for conferences and fail to show, their children will be punished with after-school chores such as cleaning bathrooms or pulling weeds.

18.   I pull weeds only when they get fat and obvious, but I water and deadhead diligently.

19.   I spent about six hours, sweeping the walk, pruning away the dried perennials, pulling weeds.

20.   In the past, the city has relied on mechanical mowing, spraying herbicides and pesticides and pulling weeds by hand.