How to Use kudzu in a Sentence

kudzu

noun

• Prime-time-soap wannabes spread like kudzu across the three networks as the 1980s unfolded.
  — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
• But the kudzu-like growth of scooters has also tangled urban life.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Phone chargers, contemporary kudzu, sprouted from the floor and the walls.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2017
• By then, the disease had carpeted her pelvic organs like kudzu.
  — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• By then, the disease had carpeted her pelvic organs like kudzu.
  — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• Invaders such as kudzu, stiltgrass and ailanthus are having a party no one seems able to break up.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• Likewise, kudzu makes great salsa, and Japanese knotweed can be treated like rhubarb.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• 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
• An investigation into how the car ended up in the kudzu is ongoing, Woodard told the outlet.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• 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
• Solutions,’’ one of the most invasive pieces of verbal kudzu ever to infect our valley.
  — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Congress in the 1930s actually used kudzu as a soil erosion deterrent.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It’s hard to keep up with the generous cartoon material that grows like kudzu corruption in bass-ackward Alabama politics.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2019
• 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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