How to Use flea in a Sentence

flea

noun

• Rory was checked out by a vet and, aside from some fleas, was given a clean bill of health.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2024
• For starters, the Bears’ third quarter flea-flicker didn’t work as designed.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• But if the displays call to mind flea markets in faraway places, the store itself has always been a New York event.
  — Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• Rat fleas also have played a role in transmitting the plague and other deadly diseases throughout history.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
• At first, Koudounaris relied on eBay, flea markets and specialist vintage doll meetups.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
• The department suggests treating dogs and cats for fleas, keeping pet food in rodent-proof containers and not letting pets roam in rodent areas or sleep in bed with you.
  — Maya Davis, CNN, 9 July 2024
• Unlike the online realm, there aren’t any backups of the brown wax cylinders dotting flea markets, antique malls and old storage sheds across America.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• For bargains, Wallace and Stoen suggest scouring estate sales, secondhand stores and flea markets.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• On the first series, Garrett called a fake reverse, a flea-flicker and a tight end end-around that resulted in a three-yard touchdown run and a 7-3 lead.
  — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
• Rutgers even tried some razzle dazzle on the 2-point conversion, but Melton’s pass attempt on a reverse flea-flicker fell incomplete.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2020
• Symptoms of murine typhus usually present within two weeks after contact with infected fleas or flea dirt, says the CDC.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Bubonic plague is caused by the bite of an infected flea, but can advance and spread to the lungs, becoming the more severe and highly contagious pneumonic plague, which can spread from person to person via droplets.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
• The Patriots emptied their bag of tricks, too; a flea-flicker with Edelman gained 33 yards in the first half, and in the fourth, Edelman was the one throwing the ball.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2020
• Use insect repellent that contains 20 to 30 percent DEET to prevent flea bites.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• The flea’s barbed tail gets caught in the throats of fish, so fish spit them out.
  — Tim Folger, Environment, 2 Dec. 2020
• Rats and fleas in parts of the country carry the bubonic plague.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
• Unlike the brown rat, the black rat is known to have carried plague through fleas on its body.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• Twice a year, the tiny town of Hillsville, Virginia hosts one of the largest flea markets in the United States.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• The fish were spawning, bunched in the shallows thicker than fleas on a hound.
  — Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
• At one time, there were more surf shops in this one town than fleas on a junkyard dog.
  — Corky Carroll, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2024
• Many pet owners turn to flea treatments as a quick fix.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2023
• Mentor would score on a flea flicker but missed the extra point with 5:41 left in the game.
  — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
• One was a flea flicker that resulted in a 42-yard pass, which led to a field goal.
  — Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• Irwin caught what may have been one of the best flea-flicker throws this season.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
• Cases of the disease increased, as did plague, spread by fleas.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• The flea flicker is seen by many as a gadget play, but not so much for McDaniels.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 8 Dec. 2022
• This was the only thing our family could do, buy and sell at the flea markets.
  — Zakary Sonntag, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2022
• Along with fruit flies, gnats, and fleas, these tiny bugs can be very annoying.
  — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 30 July 2023
• In the Middle Ages, plague caused a pandemic called the Black Death and was thought to spread by fleas carried by rats.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
• These are the flea droppings and are a good indicator that your dog has fleas.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024