How to Use kudzu in a Sentence
kudzu
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By then, the disease had carpeted her pelvic organs like kudzu.
—Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
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Prime-time-soap wannabes spread like kudzu across the three networks as the 1980s unfolded.
—Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
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But the kudzu-like growth of scooters has also tangled urban life.
—Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
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Goats will also return to the park this summer to remove kudzu and other brush and weeds from the Thurmond area.
—USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
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To make matters worse, as the soil eroded kudzu was planted on the canyon’s evolving banks in an attempt to stave off the erosion.
—Matt Bigelow, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
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Magic promotes the encroachment of the brambles, a kind of killer kudzu that puts those who touch it into a death-like sleep.
—Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
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Phone chargers, contemporary kudzu, sprouted from the floor and the walls.
—Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2017
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By then, the disease had carpeted her pelvic organs like kudzu.
—Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
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Invaders such as kudzu, stiltgrass and ailanthus are having a party no one seems able to break up.
—Washington Post, 7 July 2021
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Many final resting places had been overtaken by a tangle of trees, brush and kudzu as the site was neglected over the decades.
—NBC News, 3 Jan. 2020
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The CCTVs cycled through images of dirt lawns and driveways infested with overgrown kudzu—and also the cars passing by, and who was in them.
—Lauryn Hill, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
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Likewise, kudzu makes great salsa, and Japanese knotweed can be treated like rhubarb.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
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And this is a proper luxury SUV, offering a level of richness that the common-as-kudzu Jeeps in this segment can't match.
—David Beard, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2020
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From there, the goal is to crawl kudzu-like across the schedule until the primetime grid is bespeckled with colons and occasionally clogged with three-hour crossover events.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
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Solutions,’’ one of the most invasive pieces of verbal kudzu ever to infect our valley.
—Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
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Imported from Amsterdam, these kudzu roots were laid over the course of several weeks last spring, then left mostly alone.
—New York Times, 3 May 2021
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Southerners have found dozens of ways to eat kudzu, including making jams and jellies, and pickling the flowers that appear in late summer.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2017
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The Alabama media supplied a punchline from a lawyer whose billboards cover the nation’s Southeast like kudzu.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022
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This seed, present at the beginning of our subjugation as slaves, has sprouted and thrived as virulently as kudzu.
—Jesmyn Ward, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2018
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However, there's getting to be so much kudzu in the U.S. that Hickman decided to measure what its ozone contribution might be.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2010
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The plant is also used in Chinese medicine for treating allergies, colds, fevers and as a digestive aid. Brew a kudzu tea by chopping up a cup of leaves and boiling them for about 30 minutes to treat what ails you.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2017
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Congress in the 1930s actually used kudzu as a soil erosion deterrent.
—Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
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For centuries, Chinese medicine has been incorporating kudzu into herbal practices to treat heart disease, fever, and even the common cold.
—Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 21 Sep. 2022
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Kudzu, which was initially seen as a way to control soil erosion in the U.S. South, proved to be a fast-growing invader that chokes out other plants and even harbors other invaders, such as soybean rust and the kudzu bug.
—Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 5 June 2019
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South Africa has long pioneered the restoration of watersheds by removing invasive species like blue gum, wattles, and the vine kudzu, and increasing water flows in rivers.
—Peter Gleick, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2018
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Invasive mesquite in Africa might be used as timber or charcoal, while cattle grazing, herbicides, and controlled burning have been used to tackle kudzu.
—Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 5 June 2019
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Lately Bouley has been reaching for one ingredient preferentially: kuzu, the powdered root of the kudzu plant, which is used in Japanese cooking.
—Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2013
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It’s hard to keep up with the generous cartoon material that grows like kudzu corruption in bass-ackward Alabama politics.
—J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2019
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Buildings are unencumbered by kudzu or graffiti and have tidy, sparsely furnished rooms, as though the inhabitants had only just fled (or been vaporized).
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
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From wild hogs to fire ants to kudzu AL.com's series on invasive species has provided in-depth looks at 10 of the most damaging invasive species currently creeping, crawling or rooting through Alabama.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, AL.com, 2 Nov. 2017
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