How to Use bug out in a Sentence

bug out

verb

• Then a bug out room outside the diamond for the night of the 6th.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2022
• As those plants dry out, the grasshoppers bug out in search of food.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 30 July 2019
• For those who may get bugged out and need a break, 8 miles of scenic trails await hikers.
  — Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• At least with a chimp, there would be somebody to eat the bugs out of Rudy Giuliani's hair.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2018
• Its large, dark eyes bug out from a flattened head covered in faint pale dots.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2018
• This was three years after the Raiders had bugged out for Los Angeles.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
• Zip-open panels on the sides and rear of the tent allow ventilation, while mesh keeps the bugs out.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• One of these rifles, properly set up, will make your eyes bug out with bug-sized groups.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
• Choose a vessel with a narrow top to keep bugs out, and do not change the water if possible.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• Christopher Walken’s red-rimmed eyes bug out toward the viewer as if from a 3-D horror film.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The adjustable cord locks around the cuffs to keep bugs out as well as offers a perfectly comfortable fit around the ankles.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• When my grandma came back from the store with a dozen Krispy Kremes, my eyes bugged out of my skull and my tongue unfurled from my mouth like a carpet and steam blew out of my ears.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 13 July 2018
• Giuliani asked Sean Hannity last night, his eyes bugging out of his head.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 3 May 2018
• Chocolate-peanut butter milkshakes so thick that my eyes would bug out trying to suck them through a straw. Fondue.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 27 Apr. 2018
• Their damage is mostly economic, coming in the form of sick days, when people are told to sit tight, drink some fluids, and wait the bug out.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
• Once testers finish wringing the bugs out of the beta versions, Apple will issue them to customers.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2017
• On a recent cool morning here, mallards flew overhead, pelicans swam on the lake, coots picked bugs out of the mud, and a lone doe sauntered through tall grass.
  — Adam Popescu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Check your bug out bags and prepper materials, stock up.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2020
• Keep glass and bugs out Shards of broken glass can pierce your vacuum bag, Morris says, causing it to leak and send dirt into the motor.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Make bugs out of recycled lids and other art supplies, watch as sheep are sheared, visit a bird-feed-making station and more.
  — Alison Stanton, azcentral, 13 Apr. 2018
• This sleek kit is a great fit for your camping gear, vehicle, tackle box, disaster kit or bug out bag.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2019
• With its compact design but full features, this is the ideal sharpener for a bug out bag, tackle box, or other field kit.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• Naturally, people bugged out over that look in the comments section.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 13 July 2023
• Generally, the photographers who might have shot some of those images have long since bugged out, or have been captured or killed.
  — TIME.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• That’s when a prescription-strength corticosteroid cream—which helps to suppress the inflammatory cells that cause your skin to bug out—might help in the short term.
  — Maressa Brown, SELF, 29 Sep. 2023
• Jeanelle Cornelius still remembers her son Brandon as an easygoing 25-year-old who’d play video games with his buddies and catch and release a bug out of the house instead of kill it.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• This unscented spray contains 25% DEET and is formulated for all the deep woods bugs out there like ticks, mosquitoes, gnats, and biting flies.
  — Steven Rowe, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• People totally bugged out in the comments—and referenced her iconic role as Betty Draper in Mad Men.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 1 May 2023
• When firefighters arrived, McGee was lying on the floor — half in the bedroom, half in the bathroom — still naked and incoherent, his eyes bugged out, his pupils dilated, Watanabe said.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Amazon says the intervening year has given it time to shake the bugs out of the new facility, which now employs 2,000 – a third more than the company initially forecast.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive.com, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024