How to Use mayfly in a Sentence

mayfly

noun

• And these things are like mayflies, right?
  — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
• When will mayflies emerge in 2026?
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 28 May 2026
• These tiny black mayflies with clear wings are like candy to the trout.
  — Lydia Lohrer, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2018
• Rake up any mayflies that are in your yard, bag them, and dispose of them.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
• Each pseudo-scoop is as ephemeral as a mayfly.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
• With all due respect, that coalition had the life span of a mayfly.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Shadflies, also called mayflies or fishflies, live just a day or two.
  — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
• Here is the mayfly on my hand bringing itself into synch with my biorhythms.
  — John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Adult female mayflies are said to only live for a as little as five minutes.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 28 May 2026
• At the width of a couple of kozo fibers, the paper becomes as thin as the wings of a mayfly.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• But for the thousands of moths, midges, and mayflies flitting around in the darkness, these are places of death.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Adult mayflies live for just a few days, such a short time that evolution didn’t even provide them with a mouth.
  — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
• From this perspective, human life was even shorter than the mayfly's one day on earth.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Read on for tips to get rid of mayflies and how to prevent them from taking over your outdoor spaces.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
• Little of this comes through in the film, which is about the mayfly moment and three people at its center.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• The first year, though, the warm water attracted mayflies that bred and filled the lake with writhing larvae.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2016
• Vitinha and Joao Neves flitted around like mayflies in love.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
• While a cloud of swarming mayflies can be overwhelming, these insects are harmless.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
• Between the midges and the mayflies, every week there's a new infestation.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• The riverbottom is home to huge numbers of scuds and larvae from midges, caddis, stones, and mayflies.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
• That’s not bad compared with some adult female mayflies, which live for under five minutes—just long enough to mate and lay eggs.
  — Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 23 July 2016
• Not to mention component and frame standards that have the life expectancy of a mayfly.
  — Josh Patterson, Outside Online, 18 May 2020
• Some would sip the mouse like a tiny mayfly; others would leap completely out of the water, grabbing the fly on the way down.
  — Chris Santella, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
• With walleye of all sizes grazing on hatching mayflies, the diminutive mayfly rigs are now coming into play.
  — cleveland, 25 June 2020
• My collecting trips have yielded more than 100 new species of mayflies and stoneflies.
  — Boris Kondratieff, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• In recent years, birds, ants, bats, termites, mayflies, grasshoppers, and beetles have all been spotted on radar.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
• The mayflies covered both gas pumps, obscured the overhead lights and buzzed incessantly.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 30 May 2018
• The massive mayfly hatch earlier in the week did not seem to have its usual effect of slowing the walleye bite.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• Here, the summer evening breeze ripples through the willows, and the terrace resounds with sounds of trout rising to catch the mayfly.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2026
• While the lights themselves aren’t drawing in spiders, the moths, gnats, mosquitoes, and mayflies bobbing around the lights do.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 July 2026