How to Use bug in a Sentence

bug

1 of 2 noun
  • Ready for some fun facts about bed bugs?
    Katie Nixon, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This heat kills all life stages of the bed bug.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2026
  • Stink bugs are feeding on the fruit.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Inspect the leaves for signs of bugs.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
  • His purges are a feature, not a bug.
    Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The park has giant bugs and a tube slide.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • This is not a bug the next model will fix.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • But for me, the main issue is not bugs.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Trust that this is a feature, not a bug.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026
  • How long do boxelder bugs live?
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There were swarms of bugs and maggots.
    Jesse Bedayn, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • And hey, don't sleep on eating bugs.
    Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • Smart for blocking wind, bugs, and sun.
    Amelia Arvesen, Outside, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What are some other smells that bed bugs hate?
    Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The treatment for these three bug bites is the same.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 19 June 2026
  • Right now, the breakup bug is going around.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Bed bugs can live without blood for up to five months.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For some, that may be a feature, not a bug.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Enjoy your bug-free date on the beach, kids!
    EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Bed bugs like soft surfaces and look for places to hide.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 June 2026
  • Bed bug eggs are white and about the size of a pinhead.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Scroll on to shop these bug-blasting must haves and more!
    Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Adult kissing bugs grow to be about half an inch to an inch long.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The ski bug had never left Vonn.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Kevin Hart said he's been bitten by the golf bug.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But then the turnover bug struck the Lakers once more.
    Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Remove glass globes that are full of dirt and bugs to rinse off in the sink.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There are smaller items and a lot of bug fixes as well.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The savagery is a feature, not a bug.
    Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The fridge was empty and had bugs inside.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026

bug

2 of 2 verb
  • I hate to bug you, but could you help me move this table?
  • This whole thing with Stephanie and the plane bugged me.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • If your heat takes some time to turn on, don’t bug him about it.
    Rima Parikh, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Which bugs bite on the NC coast?
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That thing’s been bugging on him for a while.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Get clear about what’s bugging you.
    Usa Today, USA Today, 26 May 2026
  • Ending in a way that won’t bug you for the rest of your life.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Woke up this morning, still kind of bugging me.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
  • Chinch bugs overwinter in moist, deep thatch.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, the time of year when public health experts bug you to get your flu shot.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • One thing that’s bugged me about my face for a while is its angles–or lack thereof.
    Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Someone was telling me to stick my butt out and jive talk and walk around and stick your lip out and bug your eyes.
    Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Power gains are bugged to be too low for a new power grind that no one wants to do anyway.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Co-worker bugging you during heads down time?
    Sam Woodward, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And also, Bill has to be home and also not bugging me.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of my family and friends were bugging me about trying out for this role.
    EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The necessity of the trip at all is what's been bugging me.
    Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • Both can reduce debris or items that attract the boxelder bugs.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That said, choosing to do things that might push the boundaries is going to bug people.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 July 2022
  • Banks has bugged Kerkering to clean his locker, to no avail.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • His not winning it was considered a failure, and that bugged him.
    Brody Miller, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But so much of my journalism has been about something that’s bugging me.
    Jack Denton, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • So, all the things people were yelling about with Southwest weren’t bugging me.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Lift sheets, curtains and cushions to check for bed bugs or signs of bed bugs before settling in.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
  • The cost of it, however, is boots and bug repellent.
    Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the things that bug me — bad grammar, bad signage — bugged Bill Gold, too.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Being loud and being onstage expelled some of the stuff that was bugging me.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • That started to bug us — the idea of a giant company’s logo on this thing.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 29 July 2023
  • Or stream music from the car in your headphones without bugging your road trip partner?
    Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
  • Chandler Zavala has been fighting the injury bug his whole career.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026

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