How to Use kudzu in a Sentence

kudzu

noun
  • Here's how to get rid of kudzu bugs and keep them from coming back.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Try one or all of these methods to get rid of kudzu and keep it from taking over your yard.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
  • So, before kudzu, loosestrife and spurge take over your blank patches, plant plants.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But the kudzu-like growth of scooters has also tangled urban life.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • By then, the disease had carpeted her pelvic organs like kudzu.
    — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • By then, the disease had carpeted her pelvic organs like kudzu.
    — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • Make sure doors and windows have proper seals to keep kudzu bugs from using the gaps as entry points.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Invaders such as kudzu, stiltgrass and ailanthus are having a party no one seems able to break up.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • Phone chargers, contemporary kudzu, sprouted from the floor and the walls.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Prime-time-soap wannabes spread like kudzu across the three networks as the 1980s unfolded.
    — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
  • These fibers can spread like kudzu vines into the electrolyte, pierce the separator and make their way to the cathode.
    — Weiyang Li, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Magic promotes the encroachment of the brambles, a kind of killer kudzu that puts those who touch it into a death-like sleep.
    — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Likewise, kudzu makes great salsa, and Japanese knotweed can be treated like rhubarb.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • To make matters worse, as the soil eroded kudzu was planted on the canyon’s evolving banks in an attempt to stave off the erosion.
    — Matt Bigelow, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • Many final resting places had been overtaken by a tangle of trees, brush and kudzu as the site was neglected over the decades.
    — NBC News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Goats will also return to the park this summer to remove kudzu and other brush and weeds from the Thurmond area.
    — USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
  • Solutions,’’ one of the most invasive pieces of verbal kudzu ever to infect our valley.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The plant is also used in Chinese medicine for treating allergies, colds, fevers and as a digestive aid. Brew a kudzu tea by chopping up a cup of leaves and boiling them for about 30 minutes to treat what ails you.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Maintain vegetation around your home, and get rid of any kudzu or wisteria vines growing on your property.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • This seed, present at the beginning of our subjugation as slaves, has sprouted and thrived as virulently as kudzu.
    — Jesmyn Ward, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The best way to remove kudzu is with a combined approach using several methods to target the roots and zap the plant’s energy.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Imported from Amsterdam, these kudzu roots were laid over the course of several weeks last spring, then left mostly alone.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • Kuzu Made from the root of the invasive kudzu plant, this Japanese flour can be used as a thickener in many dishes.
    — Ana Morales, Vogue, 13 June 2026
  • Southerners have found dozens of ways to eat kudzu, including making jams and jellies, and pickling the flowers that appear in late summer.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2017
  • An investigation into how the car ended up in the kudzu is ongoing, Woodard told the outlet.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • From there, the goal is to crawl kudzu-like across the schedule until the primetime grid is bespeckled with colons and occasionally clogged with three-hour crossover events.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
  • How Indiana is faring In much of the southeastern United States, kudzu has gone rogue.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Congress in the 1930s actually used kudzu as a soil erosion deterrent.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • For centuries, Chinese medicine has been incorporating kudzu into herbal practices to treat heart disease, fever, and even the common cold.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The Alabama media supplied a punchline from a lawyer whose billboards cover the nation’s Southeast like kudzu.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022

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