How to Use cockroach in a Sentence

cockroach

noun

• Use a shoe to kill it, and throw the cockroach in the trash.
  — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2018
• The Kings have to talk about the cockroaches in the room.
  — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• But at this one place, the cockroach selfie is like, the point.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 22 Oct. 2018
• The cockroach of the internet has a long life ahead of it yet.
  — Martin Giles, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Maybe they’ll even get caught again, like a stupid cockroach dumb enough to walk across the kitchen counter.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2019
• There were cockroaches and mice, and my mom said not to touch them.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
• The German cockroach lives not in the wild, but in human buildings across the globe.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Oh, and the entire team, except for Larry, is now the size of a cockroach.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2020
• What to do: To get rid of them, boric acid, cockroach traps and sticky traps can be used indoors.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2024
• Someone once asked her to make a cake in the shape of a cockroach to hang from the ceiling so guests could take bites from it.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 17 June 2019
• The image in one teems with red ants; in the other, cockroaches swarm.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• In this instance, the cyborg cockroach is still very much alive.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Sep. 2022
• There are more than 4,000 species of cockroach, but only a few of them like to live with humans and eat our food.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2022
• Why did no one warn me about the human cockroaches, the human hands?
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
• Clean out the pantry, remove any open foods, and sweep floors where cockroaches might find scraps.
  — Alexandra Frost, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023
• The roach’s brain is still needed to activate its muscles and get the cockroach to move.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2022
• The case that the government is attempting to feed you has a giant cockroach in the middle of the plate.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2022
• This isn’t the first time someone has hooked up electronics to a cockroach.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Sep. 2022
• In that film, the dictator is revealed to be an alien cockroach.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2017
• But even before that last, final breath, the cockroach that crawled on the Met’s red carpet in May was a true smash.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Officials found no cockroaches in the kitchen and two dead in the basement.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• At home, a cockroach skitters out from under the closet door, big as a mouse.
  — Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• In the mid-credits scene, Orm sits at a restaurant, orders a burger and adds a crunch cockroach to it.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
• And so Arpaio continues to roam the earth, free: a stubborn old racist cockroach, pledging—much to the dismay of the rest of the world—not to go away.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 27 Sep. 2017
• The star of last year’s Met Gala was a cockroach that was photographed on the famous steps of one of fashion’s biggest events.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• Small wonder that scientists want to copy the cockroach, one of the most durable creatures around.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2018
• People check in, the room is filled with bedbugs, with cockroaches, it hasn’t been cleaned.
  — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
• Detainees find vermin such as cockroaches or body parts of rats in the food.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
• Prized perch: New Yorkers probably think a rat or a cockroach is a more fitting symbol of the city, but a giant pigeon sculpture will stand guard from the High Line trail starting this fall.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
• The toxins have been detected in species as varied as geckos, shellfish, ants, cockroaches, and beetles.
  — Bydina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024