How to Use invasive in a Sentence

invasive

adjective
  • But word to the wise: Some of those beautiful blooms might come from invasive species.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Right now, invasive species trees block a view of the waterway.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • For the second year in a row, goats are strolling around part of the Colerain Park munching on invasive plants and weeds.
    Ashley Smith, The Enquirer, 16 May 2022
  • Does your mother bristle at the sight of invasive plants?
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Rosie Gray at The Spectator compares it to kudzu, the invasive vine that adorns Southern . . .
    Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The plan was to have the baby get a little bigger and stronger before doing more invasive tests.
    jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • To grow: Considered an invasive plant in the Northwest, be sure to grow Japanese blood grass in a pot.
    Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This year, Bryant said, some children have been infected with the flu along with invasive Group A strep disease.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2022
  • It’s that time of year again, the time when the invasive, unwelcome and destructive Burmese pythons in the Everglades should be nervous.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2022
  • There has been a lot of press of late concerning an invasive earthworm from Asia now found in 15 states in the Midwest and in Nova Scotia.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The tengus are not the only invasive species plaguing Georgia.
    CBS News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The brown widow is less common than the black widow and is an invasive species, not native to North America.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 8 July 2022
  • That rainfall accelerated the growth of globe chamomile, an invasive species native to South Africa that now grows all over the area.
    Joe Duhownik, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Beginning in the mid-1990s, the Navy partnered with the National Park Service to remove invasive species from the island.
    Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022
  • This film takes place four years later, when humans are learning how to live with invasive dinosaur species.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • This led to the trail becoming overgrown with invasive plant species, according to Clement.
    Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
  • However, there is no need to be invasive in getting clients.
    Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Giant tortoises were almost wiped out there in the 18th and 19th centuries by whalers and other sailors, as well as by invasive species such as goats.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The pythons reflect the destruction invasive species can wreak in native ecosystems.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 30 July 2022
  • An invasive species, lampreys have decimated game species in the Great Lakes.
    Bill Laitner, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Some states like California and Texas have deemed that pampas grass is an invasive species.
    Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Van Der Beek then explained that fire ants are actually not native to Texas and are an invasive species.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 12 July 2022
  • With a minimally-invasive procedure, the BCI is implanted in the blood vessel on the surface of the motor cortex of the brain via the jugular vein.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Park staff removed invasive cane that enveloped a broad sandy bank that the trail at the Hot Spring resort previously traversed.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Their tasks run the gamut from building new trails to removing invasive species to repairing damage.
    Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2022
  • After concern from users on Facebook about invasive species, Texas Parks and Wildlife assured commenters in 2018 that the flamingo was unlikely to be a threat.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Scientists are looking at an invasive species of Pacific oysters that may have lured her to her doom.
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Corbicula clams, like the one seen in Winters Run, are part of an invasive species that does not originate in Maryland but has been found there before.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • With something like the Biofinder, researchers could instead subject such crystals to less invasive probes.
    Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 27 July 2022
  • Biologists and others have observed a few smallmouth bass, stripers and other warm-water invasive species slipping past the dam over the last decade.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022

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