How to Use fungus in a Sentence

fungus

noun

• If left unchecked, this sticky residue can lead to black fungus and mildew.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Your rhododendron issue with brown spots on the leaves is most likely a fungus.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2022
• The strapping has developed green mossy coloration and white specks that look like the beginnings of fungus or mold.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
• That’s the fungus that afflicted many unlucky members of Brood X.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• Like any other fungus, encountering a bleeding tooth increases with time spent looking for it.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
• If so, those might be lichen, a type of symbiotic growth that consists of a fungus that provides the structure for the algae or cyanobacteria living within it.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
• Cooke said beetle-kill lodgepole was considered at first to be a high-value wood for cabinetry, because the bugs help spread a fungus that leaves a distinctive blue tint in the grain.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
• Then, one day, that wilderness of simple cells cooked up something more complex: the ancestor of all plants, animals and fungi alive today, a cell type known to us as the eukaryote.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• Hair oils will naturally go rancid within two to three years, and products with a high water content are good breeding grounds for rash- and irritation-causing mold and fungus.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Allure, 31 Jan. 2022
• Widely known as the red list, this is one of the world's most comprehensive information sources on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus, and plant species.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Or consider trees’ root systems, which connect to one another through underground strands of fungus, creating a kind of forest nervous system.
  — Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2022
• Like the fungus in lichen, the paint provides a home for the algae.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• In the fictional world of The Last of Us, a fungus has destroyed the world.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2023
• Sewage water flows through the cold and damp room and fungus grows up the walls.
  — Esha Mitra and Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
• The fungus attacks the pears/junipers and then sends the rust spores back to the service berries.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
• In the Central Valley, heavy rain in the winter helps the fungus grow in the soil.
  — Elysee Barakett, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2024
• The brown rot could be a fungus rotting out the oak’s heartwood.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
• About 300 were from the groups where the fungus was identified.
  — NBC News, 5 Apr. 2022
• The blast infects a plant’s leaves, and when the plant is flowering, the fungus can spread to the neck and destroy the seeds.
  — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• The fungus was detected in more than half of all U.S. states last year.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune Well, 21 Mar. 2023
• The best fruiting occurs in spring and fall; the fungus may need to rest in between.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2024
• And it’s not a virus that’s infected them, but rather, a fungus.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
• Even parts of the greater Bay Area also have some of the fungus locally.
  — Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
• The fungus covers nearby homes and cars in a sooty black film, choking trees and shrubs.
  — Travis Loller, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• Essentially, the fungus infects the ant, and grows more of its cells around the brain.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• One looked healthy, the other had a fungus just below its mouth.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 13 May 2022
• The bird’s nest fungus in one image is just on dead wood and is not a pathogen that would cause you trouble.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
• The fungus causes a mycelium, the thread- and root-like portion of a mushroom, to grow over the soy, forming a firm cake.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
• The black material is growth of a sooty mold, a type of fungus which feeds on this residue.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2022
• Part of the life cycle of this fungus is entirely within the leaf.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024