How to Use bindweed in a Sentence

bindweed

noun
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  • Where bare earth stood, the bindweed sprout is a foot high, the purslane a foot across and the galinsoga putting out its first flowers.
    — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There’s no mention of quackgrass or field bindweed in its killing swath, but the label may claim that control.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 10 Apr. 2017
  • It can be confused with bindweed (wild morning glory), but is much smaller.
    — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 1 July 2017
  • Cleavers, nettles and bindweed, rejected as too thuggish, were pulled.
    — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • That’s also an attempt to make our soil less attractive to field bindweed (wild morning glory).
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Within weeks, the paths would have been entangled with bramble and honeysuckle, the herb garden strangled with bindweed.
    — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2019
  • No amount of pulling or digging seems to get to the bottom of perennial field bindweed (wild morning glory, Convolvulus arvensis), which is said to have roots that go down 20 feet.
    — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 8 May 2020
  • Sweet potatoes are relatives of morning glory (including the wild morning glory or field bindweed), all members of the Ipomea genus.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 7 Mar. 2018
  • There are many different types of weeds that can spoil a lush, green lawn: crabgrass, dandelions, white clover, quack grass, wood sorrel, bindweed, broad-leaf plantain, cinquefoil and creeping charley to name a few.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2019
  • That list includes but is not limited to honeysuckle, Carolina snailseed, poison ivy, smilax and bindweed.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • These super aggressive weeds include blackberry, Scotch broom, bindweed (also known as invasive morning glory), horsetail, English ivy, poison oak and old man’s beard (also known as traveler’s joy; an invasive species of clematis).
    — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2020

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