Examples of palmetto bug in a Sentence
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But, in truth, a palmetto bug is a cockroach.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
The fan, identified only as a 10-year-old, screamed at the sight of a palmetto bug, or cockroach, MARTA police chief Scott Kreher told local outlet 11Alive.
—EW.com, 18 July 2025
My nan streaked across the room and stomped on the palmetto bug with her bare-a** feet.
—Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
Florida, with its wild palm scrub, its palmetto bugs, its hills of fire ants and heaps of molehills, permeates the art that people create.
—Kristen Arnett, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
Inside the houses are palmetto bugs the size of lapdogs.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 June 2018
Which means she's seen her fair share of palmetto bugs, which are brown, ubiquitous, and can grow to an inch-and-a-half long or more.
—CBS News, 4 May 2018
And finally, after carrying around parts of a palmetto bug in her ear for nine days, Holley was roach-free again.
—Matthew Martinez, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
Legs that could only belong to an adventurous palmetto bug [a type of roach] exploring my ear canal.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 1 May 2018
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
The fan, identified only as a 10-year-old, screamed at the sight of a palmetto bug, or cockroach, MARTA police chief Scott Kreher told local outlet 11Alive.
—EW.com, 18 July 2025
My nan streaked across the room and stomped on the palmetto bug with her bare-a** feet.
—Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
Florida, with its wild palm scrub, its palmetto bugs, its hills of fire ants and heaps of molehills, permeates the art that people create.
—Kristen Arnett, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
Inside the houses are palmetto bugs the size of lapdogs.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 June 2018
Which means she's seen her fair share of palmetto bugs, which are brown, ubiquitous, and can grow to an inch-and-a-half long or more.
—CBS News, 4 May 2018
And finally, after carrying around parts of a palmetto bug in her ear for nine days, Holley was roach-free again.
—Matthew Martinez, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
Legs that could only belong to an adventurous palmetto bug [a type of roach] exploring my ear canal.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 1 May 2018
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“Palmetto bug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palmetto%20bug. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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