How to Use centipede in a Sentence

centipede

noun

• Most centipede bites happen when someone slips their foot into a shoe with a centipede hiding in the toe box.
  — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024
• According to Orkin, the giant desert centipede’s bite can cause sharp, burning pain and significant swelling.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
• The cold will also slow or cease the growth of centipede and bahia lawns too.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Think of it like a centipede sprouting a pair of legs from each segment.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• Countless dirt roads scratch outward from the highway like the legs of a centipede.
  — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
• Sheehy said that both the diminutive snake and the centipede are venomous.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
• Among a dozen different brooches she's been seen wearing, there's been a fox, a frog and a centipede.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
• October is the last feeding for bahia, centipede and zoysia lawns this year.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Bermuda is easier and faster to grow a lawn from seeds than centipede.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• This one was 8 inches long, and the centipede measured 3 inches.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
• That in turn is what makes blood vessels in the centipede's target spasm, sometimes strongly enough to cause death.
  — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2018
• By far, that list of insects combined is way creepier than any house centipede!
  — Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 25 May 2017
• Stranger still is that this rare species of snake, died with a centipede trapped inside its throat — forever stuck in a fierce battle.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022
• The mice Yang watched centipedes kill were a whopping 15 times larger than the terrifying bugs.
  — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2018
• The NFTs show Madonna giving birth to creatures like butterflies, centipedes and even a tree.
  — Carlie Porterfield, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Atrazine is labeled for use on centipede and St. Augustine lawns.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• Most toddlers don’t spend their days picking up sticks and chasing centipedes in the forest with their teacher.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2019
• Ghost ships loom out of the night fog, unfurling and attacking like a giant centipede filled with half-faced warriors.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Tick off the number and species of each organism observed, such as centipedes, ground beetles, and spiders.
  — Julie Monahan, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2015
• Use it for tons of drills where you are required to move laterally or front to back, like the centipede, double trouble, icky shuffle and more.
  — Amanda McElfresh, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• The king would have been an early member of the Waka, or centipede, dynasty that lasted from the fourth century to the eighth century.
  — National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2017
• His past expeditions have found lots of centipedes living in epiphytes called bird’s nest ferns.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• Understanding the ways spider and centipede toxin work could help health care.
  — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 11 June 2015
• The two types of lawn grasses commonly established from seed are bermuda and centipede.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• For lawn grasses that can be seeded, such as common bermuda, seed grow cultivars of bermuda and centipede, the time to do this is when the weather warms up in April or May.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• Bay to Breakers also features a centipede division: teams of 13 or more runners that run the full 12K course as a unit, usually linked by a bungee cord.
  — Molly Hanson, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2022
• Expect a centipede affect with more players getting sacks rather than one player dominating the stats as in the Khalil Mack years.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• And yet, state of the art neural networks pegged them, with upward of 99 percent certainty, as centipedes, cheetahs, and peacocks.
  — Kyle Vanhemert, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2015
• Plant your lawn: This is the prime planting season for warm-season grasses, such as St. Augustine, centipede, Bermuda and zoysia.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Plus, their other legs allow the centipedes to attack and trap insects—cowboy style!—with a lassoing method.
  — Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 25 May 2017

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024