How to Use insect in a Sentence

insect

noun

• Head Lice Lice are insects that lay eggs while attached to the hairs of the head.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
• And despite their name, the insects are not just found in the bedroom.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• From birth to death, these insects shape the forest around them.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
• The insects fled only 47 percent of the time when the robot didn’t flash its wings.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• The insect in the nymph stage has coloring similar to that in the adult stage.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• But a man a few feet away, who was allergic to the insect’s sting, was not alarmed.
  — Noah Lederman, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• That year, Mars launched a line of cat food made from insects, called LoveBug.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• While there, researchers found a red insect perched on a twig and captured it.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• While sage brush leaves make up the bulk of the sage grouse’s diet, the birds also feed on other plants and some insects.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• One way to prevent stings is to avoid making the insects feel threatened.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 11 May 2023
• It’s amplified in the tree boughs and joined by gentle insect songs.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Place a few weatherproof fans around your patio to keep the insects at bay.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 2 June 2023
• The trick will be adapting DAS to monitor species that aren’t the loudest insects on Earth.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Just think of the number of different things that will eat a single insect species.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• In the wild, fennec foxes eat insects, rodents, lizards, birds and eggs.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Feed a fly trap insects that are about a third of its size for ideal digestion.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• Even at the high speed that bees fly, the device was able to accurately track the insect’s movements.
  — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 1 June 2023
• Most insects, and arachnids for that matter, don’t get that kind of treatment.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Look for signs of bed bugs, such as tiny white eggs (bed bug nymphs), black stains, black droppings, brown or red blood stains, and insect skins.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2023
• The good news is that food is plentiful with insect hatches and baitfish spawns in full swing.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
• And there are plenty of other plants that drive away hungry insects.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 2 June 2023
• Be aware of areas where trees may be weakened by storms, insect damage or fire.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• When the leaf first falls to the ground, arthropods– such as insects, mites and collembolans– break the leaf down into smaller chunks by shredding the tissue.
  — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• With scarce food in this habitat, the mouse likely only has lichens and the occasional insect to eat.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Rather than escaping a predator, the insects fly toward their own demise.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• As a result, these insects will often feed on human sweat.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Over time, the insects that have the receptors for those scents will have better survival rates and produce more offspring.
  — Christine Picard, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2023
• The sun shines a little brighter, soft insect sounds buzz a little more merrily, and the afternoons linger on a little longer.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
• The colorful insects are similar in size to small hummingbirds and can beat their wings at the same rate — up to 70 flaps per second.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Research suggests that insects make up 14 to 18 percent of all foreign bodies found in ear canals.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024