How to Use fungal in a Sentence

fungal

adjective

• The baking soda will kill the fungal spores and the oil is used as a sticker to hold the spray on the leaves longer.
  — oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2021
• Its leaves remained attached, and there was a mass of white fungal growth around the roots.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
• For the first few million years, the ants tended fungal species also found in the wild.
  — Byariana Remmel, science.org, 3 Oct. 2024
• Its trunk is riddled with fungal cankers and fire scars.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
• For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.
  — Jude Coleman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Black spot: This is caused by the fungal pathogen Diplocarpon rosae.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• Snow mold is a fungal lawn disease that damages and kills grass.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2024
• Now the species faces a new threat: a fungal disease that eats through the shell creating a Swiss cheese effect.
  — Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2022
• Dreijer sings, their voice coated in a downy, fungal film.
  — Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
• Ohio ranks in the top 10 of 29 states that have reported cases of the fungal infection so far.
  — The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• In the film, a new fungal disease called Coral is spreading rapidly across the planet.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
• The fungal infection spread to the entire family and the dog.
  — Matt Voltz, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
• Flower blight or petal blight is also caused by a fungal pathogen.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
• The leaves have definitely been hit by a fungal leaf spot.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Sep. 2021
• This attention spares our plants from pests and fungal stress.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• The decline could be of fungal nature but does not appear to be from insects.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• This airflow protects against too much moisture and the threat of fungal disease.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
• But it’s not the only fungal pathogen lurking beneath our feet.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
• Tests revealed the non-native snakes carried a fungal disease that spread to the native snakes.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
• Good hand hygiene can also help, since the fungal infection is spread skin to skin.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 11 May 2023
• Needle cast is a fungal disease that causes needles to turn brown and fall off.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2023
• Wear a mask to avoid inhaling fungal spores stirred up by raking.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• This year, the cool, wet weather, has encouraged fungal growth.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2022
• In addition, cane wounds caused by the thorns on crossing canes allow fungal pathogens to enter the cane, which can open up the plant to cane disease.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• In that Utopian garden, pests wouldn’t suck or chew on our plants, and fungal diseases would stay out of rose gardens.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• This will thwart pests and fungal diseases, which often begin and take hold under cover of the leaves.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
• Watering in the evening, when dew is prevalent, also sets the scene for fungal growth on grass blades that will remain wet overnight.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 July 2024
• Its trunk bore scars of wildfire and a fungal infection, and the top of its foliage bore a yellowish cast.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
• This will help cut down on the fungal gnats that always seem to swarm around a plant that is transitioned indoors from outside.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
• Doing so creates an environment for fungus to grow, increasing the risk of fungal infections.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024