How to Use weed out in a Sentence

weed out

phrasal verb
Definition of weed outnext
  • Pull weeds out by the roots or cut off the top growth with a hoe.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The $1 rolling fee is intended to weed out bots on the platform.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The key isn’t to try to weed out these unhappy workers and get rid of them.
    — Steve Sonnenberg, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The primary goal is to weed out the poor singers and keep the one talented singer as the winner.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • How to get weed out of your system There aren't many options to get the weed out of your system faster.
    — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • But at the same time, there's a weeding out process that gives the American people a chance to look at all of the alternatives.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 4 June 2023
  • Seattle and Green Bay would be tied, but Atlanta would fall behind here and get weeded out.
    — Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Once the weeds are within its sights, the robot uses a series of metal fingers to quickly dig up and push weeds out of the dirt.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The procedures were part of an overhaul meant to make the awards more diverse and equitable — and to weed out bad actors.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • The app also made a major change that now takes the onus off of women to make the first move, and announced AI dating concierges to help weed out matches.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This gives short shrift to the integrity of jurors themselves and to the voir dire process that Trump’s legal team can use to weed out biased jurors.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Until the natives spread, invasive plants may need to be weeded out.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • In fact, some travelers have already started doing that to weed out 737 Max planes.
    — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The police always keep out of the papers and the public domain certain details of a crime to help weed out false confessions.
    — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The new rule may weed out the possibility of a grassroots campaign on behalf of a very small film, however.
    — Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • Ohioans sought that right 111 years ago as part of an effort to weed out corruption and make government more responsive.
    — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 27 June 2023
  • Justice vowed to weed out those responsible for wrongdoing and urged the public to support the State Police.
    — Brynn Gingras, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • But the mark of a morally serious movement lies in its determination to weed out its worst members and stamp out its worst ideas.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Gradually through the 2000s pay phone companies started weeding out the phones that were no longer profitable.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The test could weed out people who are currently on these expensive drugs but aren’t benefiting much from them.
    — Alice Park, Time, 30 June 2023
  • As for the sitter who never got that $10, perhaps the takeaway is that standing your ground is admirable, and may serve to weed out the situations that either work well for both parties—or don’t.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 17 July 2023
  • That’s where checking clinical information helps to weed out the true cases.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Investors, at least, have a few more tools at their disposal to help weed out greenwashing claims than consumers do, including time and money.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • The sense that bad actors could be weeded out at the root was satisfying liberal fantasy, though.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The retailer’s removal of self-checkout kiosks is its way of weeding out locations where people are using them to steal the most product, Vasos said.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But most of those people were either weeded out by Ukrainian law enforcement or fled on their own in the first months after Russia’s invasion.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In 2019, the company started reviewing U.S. and Canadian reservations to weed out suspicious rentals, such as guests who booked a one-night stay close to their home.
    — Tre'vaughn Howard, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Look for licensed online casinos that promise to weed out bots, collusion, and other forms of shady behavior.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • This will immediately weed out half the people waiting in line, thereby relieving some of the pressure.
    — Jay Cohen, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

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