How to Use bindweed in a Sentence

bindweed

noun

• It can be confused with bindweed (wild morning glory), but is much smaller.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 1 July 2017
• There’s no mention of quackgrass or field bindweed in its killing swath, but the label may claim that control.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 10 Apr. 2017
• Cleavers, nettles and bindweed, rejected as too thuggish, were pulled.
  — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Where bare earth stood, the bindweed sprout is a foot high, the purslane a foot across and the galinsoga putting out its first flowers.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
• That’s also an attempt to make our soil less attractive to field bindweed (wild morning glory).
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
• Morning glory is easy to grow from seeds in most soils and is a kissing cousin to field bindweed, one of the weed vines for later discussion.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2021
• Early spring is the best time to tackle weeds that send out long, twining stems among other plants, such as creeping Charlie, bindweed and quack grass.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• Within weeks, the paths would have been entangled with bramble and honeysuckle, the herb garden strangled with bindweed.
  — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2019
• Summer annuals include common weeds like crabgrass, bindweed, and lambsquarters.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
• That list includes but is not limited to honeysuckle, Carolina snailseed, poison ivy, smilax and bindweed.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
• Seeds of warm-season annuals like crabgrass, bindweed, knotweed and lamb’s quarters germinate in spring and plants often get a jump on growth before heat-loving grasses like bermudagrass get started.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
• No amount of pulling or digging seems to get to the bottom of perennial field bindweed (wild morning glory, Convolvulus arvensis), which is said to have roots that go down 20 feet.
  — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• Looking like a wild morning glory, field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) is a vigorous perennial vine that often snakes its way up, over, and through your garden plants.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
• In addition, the State of Wisconsin also defined three plants to be noxious weeds in the 1970s, including Canada thistle, leafy spurge and field bindweed.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2021
• Known as field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) or hedge bindweed (Convolvulus sepium), both are in the morning glory family and often confused with wild buckwheat and morning glory, which are summer annual plants that aren’t invasive.
  — oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2022
• These super aggressive weeds include blackberry, Scotch broom, bindweed (also known as invasive morning glory), horsetail, English ivy, poison oak and old man’s beard (also known as traveler’s joy; an invasive species of clematis).
  — OregonLive.com, 27 Feb. 2018