I'd just about persuaded myself to run the weed-whacker around the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray again] Reference

For example, he has a sub-villain lose an arm and replace it with a weed-whacker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiaasenesque-ness] Reference

Somebody has arrived to mow the grass with a weed-whacker, and the din is now unendurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive: The elevator doesn't stop here anymore. Music legend Roky Erickson, godfather of the psychedelic sound, survived the '60s. Sort of.] Reference

After running the weed-whacker around the edges and stuff, so I'm covered in shredded plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silly me] Reference

Running the weed-whacker around the yard, one of my least-favorite tasks of routine maintenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last man standing] Reference

August 16, 2009 at 8:41 am mebbe shud be trimmin wif teh weed-whacker befor teh date, not just combing….    From Wordnik.com.  [Rule #16 For Blind Dating - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

For a long time now, it's looked as if he's been styling it with a weed-whacker just before going on stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-13] Reference

A mower, a weed-whacker, some clippers, a few hand tools, a blower, and two or three pairs of nail scissors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Gay Cars for the Economic Apocalypse : Brett Berk] Reference

Did run the weed-whacker before sun broke through, with the usual effect of ending up coated with plant guts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray again] Reference

That's like sneaking up on me behind my back with a weed-whacker and then handing me a band-aid after I've been ripped apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Frevele: In Defense of Hart Hanson and Why We Lose the Best TV Characters] Reference

Soon, the people will be out, buzzing their grasses in unison, getting any strays or hard to reach clumps with the weed-whacker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawnmower Season] Reference

Listen, Larry and Mitch, we decided not to let Jamie canvas with a weed-whacker in his hand, because, well, it didn't look mayoral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday Mayoral Wrap-up] Reference

The script by Miller is pathetic, chopping and pasting opposing scenes together in such haphazard fashion that a weed-whacker would have a better shot at assembling it properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ray asks; where is THE SPIRIT of cinema in THE SPIRIT? | Obsessed With Film] Reference

If I hate my mower, I reserve special hatred for the weed-whacker, the strimmer, with its little nylon line that snaps every two minutes, requiring disassembly and reassembly of the device.    From Wordnik.com.  [I can’t mow the lawn, love, it’s a site of special scientific interest « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

Despite a goat getting loose one night, Ms. Holst, who has watched her husband "slip-and-slide down the hillside" with a weed-whacker and herbicide, declares the animals "well worth the expense.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Free-Range Landscaping] Reference

The bassist started with an open strum, held the bass by the body and waved the neck down towards the stage by the body in front of the Hartke cabinet, swinging the long neck of the bass like a weed-whacker.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProgDay XI] Reference

The right course is to rein in government spending, lower taxes, take a weed-whacker to excessive regulation and mandates, put a stop to tort windfalls, and to stand up to the tyrannosaurus appetite of government unions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2008] Reference

Not to mention polluting the atmosphere with your weed-whacker exhaust.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Attempts to rein in the fee-charging are like a weed-whacker unto kudzu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

PS buy a weed-whacker and feed them well and that milk even gets better!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference

Use weed-whacker to edge around structures, flower gardens, sidewalks, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS] Reference

Turner had deadpanned that someone along the way unfortunately turned it into “a weed-whacker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

Turner had deadpanned that someone along the way unfortunately turned it into "a weed-whacker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

So we'll be seeing him in an orange jumpsuit doing weed-whacker duty out on the county roads pretty soon, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Review Online] Reference

I can promise you this is the first time Albo has used a weed-whacker and that he didn't do it very long this time … He's wearing shorts … that's gotta hurt!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference

Hopefully, this penchant for woody invasives like Canada blackberry will make goats the perfect organic weed-whacker for protecting the grassy balds of the Roan Highlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoky Mountain News] Reference

Just over twelve feet long, it takes off and lands like a regular plane, and its propeller makes it sound like a weed-whacker flying overhead; it can stay in the air for five hours and fly seventy miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

A handle designed after one on Wright's weed-whacker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

A psychotic body guard whose barracuda-severed arm has been replaced by a weed-whacker prosthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

To prevent both: just give peeshooter: a weed-whacker, a sewing kit and one of those cones they stick on dogs after they’ve been neutered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Still Bitter Over Loss On Health Reform, GOP Seeks To Block Judicial Nominee For His Health Care Views] Reference

"I am the weed-whacker in the garden of evil!".    From Wordnik.com.  [dustbury.com » Newest application of Reese’s Law] Reference

0/+4 "Fry, as you know, there are lots of things I'm willing to kill for: jewels, vengeance, Father O'Mallee's weed-whacker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

24-year-old father who will JUMP on a crappy part-time weed-whacker job is someone who understands the critical, humbling demands of parenthood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Verdict: Put away that weed-whacker!.    From Wordnik.com.  [ParentDish] Reference

Looked like he’d taken a weed-whacker to it!!.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Brothers & Sisters' premiere: Tears and fears | EW.com] Reference