How to Use knotweed in a Sentence

knotweed

noun

• The goats were first used on the knotweed patch in South Windsor in June.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• All very well, of course, if the knotweed is confined to a garden.
  — Christopher Middleton, Newsweek, 5 July 2014
• Native to the Americas, erect knotweed grows in the moist flood zones near rivers.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Another problem is the Japanese knotweed that has taken over the yard.
  — Kelly Klein, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• 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
• As knotweed clearly demonstrates, theI didn’t y are adept at traveling.
  — Barry Estabrook, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Likewise, kudzu makes great salsa, and Japanese knotweed can be treated like rhubarb.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• 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
• Japanese knotweed and New Zealand flatworms are cited as threats.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Sometimes, though, the properties attacked by Japanese knotweed are brand new.
  — Christopher Middleton, Newsweek, 5 July 2014
• Sapsucking psyllid insects from Japan have been imported there to chew through stands of Japanese knotweed.
  — Barry Estabrook, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One of the most famous examples is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year: the introduction of Japanese knotweed to the U.S.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• 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
• This spring, bundles of tender, young knotweed and pokeweed shoots will be appearing tentatively at greenmarkets.
  — Marie Viljoen/saveur, Popular Science, 19 Apr. 2020
• That’s because the massive root system of Japanese knotweed stores huge amounts of energy for regenerating.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• The now-30-year-old Nelson makes videos about magnolia blossoms, maple leaves, dandelion fritters, even invasive species like Japanese knotweed.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• Giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed both were originally used as garden plants.
  — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
• Some set menus slyly increase awareness, like a recent series of invasive species dinners that sold out in two hours, with diners tempted by jellyfish and Japanese knotweed.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2022
• 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
• Since the Fifties, such literature has grown like Japanese knotweed over the shelves of airport bookstores, and its authors have filled hotel conference rooms with eager seminar attendees.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• The park is currently fighting against invasives like phragmites, hybrid cattail, buckthorn, Japanese knotweed and even wetland species like purple loosestrife.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Many of those weedy species are also invasive, including Scotch broom, dandelions, Himalayan blackberry and Japanese knotweed, among others.
  — Alison McAfee, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2020
• American travelers returning from Japan first brought knotweed to America.
  — Ryan Knighton, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2016
• His special passion was attempting to eradicate Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant that resembles tall bamboo.
  — courant.com, 19 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024