How to Use beetle in a Sentence

beetle

noun

• The ant’s mandibles gaped open and prepared to seize the beetle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• The beetle has a one-year life cycle but spends most of its life in the soil as a grub.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2022
• On the other hand, all three are species of slime-mold beetle.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The beetle is believed to have come from Asia through Canada to the U.S. about 20 years ago.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
• In the game, one player is the ant and wasp, the other player is the beetle larva and adult.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Here’s my metaphor: Gene is like that beetle that skirts the surface of a pond and never gets wet.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
• Keep an eye out for critters like lizards and June beetles, too.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Think Batman, but less rich, less buff ... and beetle, not bat.
  — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2023
• Spiders are known for their eight legs, while beetles have hard shells.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• Some were worried the high number of cones is a sign of the spruce beetle pandemic.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• This is damage caused by a small beetle called a black twig borer.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
• Flea beetles are shiny, oval blue-black beetles, about 1/10-inch long.
  — oregonlive, 10 June 2023
• The little red beetles appear as a motif on clothes and decor.
  — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• But the flashy beetle — and the pastime of catching them — that once was so commonplace may become a thing of the past.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• Mangini layered a cat purr over the ornithopter, with tent straps and beetle wings flapping in the wind.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
• Named for its host plant, this native striped beetle can chew leaf holes as both an adult and a larva.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2023
• If the library’s got bugs, and death beetles infested it in the 1970s, well, the stacks can turn into freezers.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• The knights are not humans but New Zealand giraffe weevils, a species of beetle with a snout like a lance.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• The scarab beetle was one of the most prevalent symbols of ancient Egypt, found in all sorts of tombs beyond that of Tutankhamun.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• The beetle was beneath my foot at the moment when my foot fell; a sense of well-being in the daylight, a short, shrill pain and then nothing.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• If that doesn't work, however, there are natural ways to kill the beetle grubs in your lawn.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 22 Apr. 2021
• So back then the ancestral lineage infecting beetles in the log would have jumped to the ants that also live in logs.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
• This approach works well on moths, beetles and stinkbugs, but not on mosquitoes.
  — Hailey A. Luker, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
• The titan beetle is among the world’s biggest insects and is the largest beetle on Earth, growing up to 6.5 inches long.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2022
• The beetle infestation meant thousands of trees had to get ripped out.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
• To call the quarter-inch beetle a pest would be an understatement.
  — Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• These are an invasive species that can wreak havoc and this trap will attract and catch both kinds of beetle.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 26 May 2021
• The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle native to Asia.
  — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Still, among plant-eating beetles—which make up roughly a quarter of all beetle species—a clear pattern is emerging.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
• Their diet includes beetles, hoppers and yes, crickets.
  — Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024