How to Use ragweed in a Sentence

ragweed

noun

• In the spring the trees are leafing out earlier and in the fall the ragweed is lasting longer.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• Finfrock, who serves on the center’s board, said he’s spent more than 20 hours pulling ragweed at the center over the past three weeks.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2020
• Grass pollen starts to pick up in April and May, and then high ragweed counts will start to appear in September.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2020
• High ragweed pollen levels are also to blame for the smell, Lanza wrote.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
• Traces of ragweed marked how different species flourished in the cleared land.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• There are tablets now for grass, ragweed and dust mites, but if trees are the culprit, allergy shots are the only way to go.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• Tree pollen and ragweed pollen is not expected to make an impact.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• There are very few ragweed surveys showing where these plants are growing in the U.S., but that can be improved.
  — Allison L. Steiner, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2023
• Allergies are common in the fall and winter due to triggers like cedar and ragweed.
  — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2022
• Then grasses come out in the summer, followed by ragweed in late summer.
  — Yingxiao Zhang, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023
• The giant ragweed makes dark corridors down to the stream, and the pipevine smothers the leaning pergola of shrubs and trees beneath.
  — Bill Finch, al, 6 Aug. 2023
• But as much as the common ragweed loves to grow, Ophraella communa loves to devour it.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Apr. 2020
• Weed pollen is low/moderate, as ragweed begins to pick up.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• Tree and ragweed pollen is expected to be low to nonexistent.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• For the vast majority of people, ragweed is little more than a green and yellow shrub.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2019
• Grass pollen becomes more prevalent in the summer, followed by ragweed in late summer.
  — Allison L. Steiner, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2023
• Tree and grass pollen levels will be very high on Tuesday, along with moderate levels of ragweed pollen.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 7 May 2024
• The list of allergens that SLIT can help fix is much smaller—at the moment, only short ragweed pollen, grasses, and house dust mites—and only one of these at a time.
  — Kathleen Felton, SELF, 10 June 2024
• In addition to ragweed, fall is prime season for indoor and outdoor molds.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 19 June 2019
• Tree and grass pollen levels tend to peak during spring, while ragweed and other weed pollens can last through the summer and into early fall.
  — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2020
• One type of pollen hitting the propeller blades comes from ragweed, a plant with little green flowers blooming from a slender stem.
  — Lucas Joel, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2019
• The idea is to keep pollen, ragweed and other allergens from entering your nose and setting off symptoms.
  — Arlene Karidis, Washington Post, 1 July 2017
• In China, the bug is mass-reproduced and actively distributed to control the spread of ragweed.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
• Case’s 2018 study names upstate New York and New England as prime areas for ragweed expansion.
  — Meryl Davids Landau, Good Housekeeping, 15 Apr. 2021
• Grass pollen is close behind at a 'moderate' level, with ragweed listed as 'low'.
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2023
• Pet dander, dust, ragweed, grass, and pollen can trigger your eyes to have an allergic reaction.
  — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2023
• Weeds are the biggest culprit of allergy triggers in the fall, with ragweed being the biggest offender.
  — Dr. Kimberly Loo, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Though weed pollination depends on the amount of daylight, fall can still bring allergens like pollen from ragweed.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
• While the original book’s stories are the better of the two, Centerburg Tales has its own moments of fun, from the giant ragweed trees to the mysterious song no one can stop singing.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• It’s followed by ragweed (a thin purple-stemmed, green flowering plant) in the fall, which is showing signs of worsening from higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the air.
  — Michaela Mulligan, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024