How to Use herbicide in a Sentence

herbicide

noun

• Once the wand was in place, the herbicide was ready to use.
  — Kate Puhala, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2024
• Set the nozzle to a fairly fine mist and coat the leaves with the herbicide just to the point of runoff.
  — Neil Sperry Down To Earth, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Nov. 2021
• This is so the herbicide sticks to the weeds and enters the foliage.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• The weeds don't absorb and translocate the herbicides in the heat.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 22 June 2024
• This is a good time of year to cut your buckthorns down and treat the stumps with an herbicide.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2020
• Look for a herbicide made for your lawn type that lists sedge.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 20 July 2024
• It's made with yellow peas that are free from glyphosate, the herbicide found in Roundup.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2022
• Apply an herbicide now and the weeds won't return in the spring.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
• This will allow time for the herbicide to work through the plant’s system.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 21 Aug. 2019
• It has been described as the most widely used herbicide in the world.
  — Paul Feldman, kansascity, 3 May 2018
• The use of phenoxy herbicide in the early spring has been pretty good as the spray.
  — OregonLive.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• This herbicide is translocated through the weed to kill it – roots and all.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2023
• Mulches are also the best way to save work and reduce the use of herbicides to control weeds in beds.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 May 2018
• As such, herbicide use can be more effective at this time of the year.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
• Young poison ivy plants should be treated with an herbicide in the spring, when the plants are small.
  — Mike Hogan, The Enquirer, 28 May 2023
• Apply the herbicide with a pump sprayer in a fine droplet pattern.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• This is the perfect time to use an herbicide to eliminate the weeds.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2022
• Let all the weed seeds germinate and grow for a few days and then spray them all out with a glyphosate herbicide (e.g. Roundup).
  — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
• Johnson sprayed the herbicide out of 50-gallon drums as part of his job.
  — Matthew Berger, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• Grassy weeds are growing in a ground cover and a friend told me to use the Image herbicide.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2021
• They can be sprayed with an herbicide, but a more long-lasting solution is to pull the plants up by the roots.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2022
• Use your mower and the herbicide Weed Free Zone to keep the spring weeds under control.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2021
• Come next spring, wait for the grass to grow long enough to be mowed, then mow it and apply an herbicide to prevent weed growth.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2018
• If this is a one-time herbicide drift the tree will probably be healthy again next year.
  — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2021
• Spot treat with a selective herbicide that won’t kill the grass, too.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 15 Apr. 2021
• The only way to beat the invasive seed bank would be to use a pre-emergent herbicide.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2022
• The best way to control a big outbreak of crabgrass in your lawn is to use a pre-emergent herbicide in spring.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• But the court said the standards were often ignored, and the EPA, in its 2018 approval, failed to acknowledge the risks posed by the herbicide.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 3 June 2020
• If aeration is on your to-do list, do it before applying pre-emergents to avoid disrupting the herbicide barrier.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
• One final note: In some lawns, annual bluegrass can become resistant to herbicides when the same herbicide has been used repeatedly over the years, says Waltz.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2025