How to Use knotweed in a Sentence

knotweed

noun
  • The erosion caused by knotweed also drives off fish and wildlife.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2023
  • All very well, of course, if the knotweed is confined to a garden.
    — Christopher Middleton, Newsweek, 5 July 2014
  • The goats were first used on the knotweed patch in South Windsor in June.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Native to the Americas, erect knotweed grows in the moist flood zones near rivers.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
  • As knotweed clearly demonstrates, theI didn’t y are adept at traveling.
    — Barry Estabrook, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Pickled in soy sauce and chili flakes and tempura fried, however, knotweed is tastier than a kale chip.
    — Ryan Knighton, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2016
  • Weed killers can also help in the process of removing Japanese knotweed.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Down the steep bank and through dog-hair stands of invasive knotweed, the river opens up to a huge slow pool below and a riffle above.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Her photographs are frank and blunt in their acceptance of chain link, barbed wire, mud and smothering mounds of knotweed.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 30 June 2019
  • Likewise, kudzu makes great salsa, and Japanese knotweed can be treated like rhubarb.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • No offense to your prize camellia, but the garden is the least of your worries with Japanese knotweed.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Another problem is the Japanese knotweed that has taken over the yard.
    — Kelly Klein, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • From Japanese knotweed to kudzu vines, these invasive species cause problems throughout the world.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
  • Japanese knotweed and New Zealand flatworms are cited as threats.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Bonus points for the support from soothing botanicals like frankincense, gotu kola, white birch bark, and knotweed.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Sometimes, though, the properties attacked by Japanese knotweed are brand new.
    — Christopher Middleton, Newsweek, 5 July 2014
  • Vincent Stetson, the town’s tree warden, has been working on finding natural ways to control the knotweed.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Here the staff has rooted out nonnative honeysuckles and knotweeds throughout groves of maple, beech, hickory, sweet gum, oak, ash and tulip trees.
    — Eve M. Kahn, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed both were originally used as garden plants.
    — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
  • This spring, bundles of tender, young knotweed and pokeweed shoots will be appearing tentatively at greenmarkets.
    — Marie Viljoen/saveur, Popular Science, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Sapsucking psyllid insects from Japan have been imported there to chew through stands of Japanese knotweed.
    — Barry Estabrook, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • His tasting menu that evening included spring garlic, knotweed, herbs foraged at the beach, lovage, rhubarb and a leafy northern plant called orpin with a slightly bitter flavor.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • In coming months, the goats will also serve as Arboretum landscapers, munching through stands of poison ivy and Japanese knotweed.
    — Joel Millman, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2023
  • That’s because the massive root system of Japanese knotweed stores huge amounts of energy for regenerating.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Don’t buy land invaded by Japanese knotweed, which is impossible to defeat with its spread, which can reach up to 65 feet underground.
    — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Elsewhere, including the United States and Britain, knotweed is widely considered a vegetable plague.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Readers of the book will find new ways to prepare vegetables, from celery root to cauliflower, and learn about more unusual ingredients like carrot seeds, knotweed and radish seed pods.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Seeds of warm-season annuals like crabgrass, bindweed, knotweed and lamb’s quarters germinate in spring and plants often get a jump on growth before heat-loving grasses like bermudagrass get started.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
  • American travelers returning from Japan first brought knotweed to America.
    — Ryan Knighton, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2016
  • Bohn is worried that in a few years, Milwaukee might be rife with infrastructure problems from new Japanese knotweed populations.
    — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021

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