How to Use fruit fly in a Sentence

fruit fly

noun

• The fruit flies will be drawn in, but won't be able to get out.
  — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2018
• The stainless steel lid keeps out fruit flies and ants and blocks odors.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
• The fruit flies will enter but not be able to make their way out.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 12 Mar. 2023
• Of all the household pests that might invade your home, fruit flies aren’t the worst.
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 20 Mar. 2020
• Each female fruit fly can lay up to 500 eggs at a time!
  — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 23 May 2022
• Big league pitching coaches have the shelf life of fruit flies.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• This is why there are 800 or so species of fruit fly on the Hawaiian islands.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2012
• The restaurant has been dealing with a fruit fly outbreak around the bar.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Hence, the brain of the humble fruit fly, with one millionth the number of neurons of our own.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
• This insect — the fruit fly — sounded like just the right animal for the job.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2016
• Bloody Mary could contain up to four maggots and 20 or more fruit fly eggs.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• One of those is called doublesex, after the fruit fly version of the gene.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2020
• In the wild, fruit flies eat yeast that’s found, for example, on rotting fruit.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
• Along with fruit flies, gnats, and fleas, these tiny bugs can be very annoying.
  — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 30 July 2023
• Fiddle with the hedgehog genes in fruit flies and their larvae become spiky — hence the name.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 23 Oct. 2019
• This Easter Island ooze made fruit flies, worms and yeast cells live longer.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2019
• And while getting rid of snakes may not be as easy as getting rid of fruit flies or ants, the process doesn't have to be too scary.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 17 Dec. 2019
• The spotted wing fruit fly is one of the world’s major crop destroyers.
  — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 23 Apr. 2018
• Their volatility makes a fruit fly’s flight path seem staid.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 11 May 2022
• The most recent paper the family found was in fruit flies.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 May 2024
• The team used gene editing to dial down the use of around 300 low-scoring genes found in both humans and fruit flies.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• Houseflies and fruit flies are some of the most common—and most annoying—home pests.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 June 2023
• The residence was full of trash and dirty dishes, as well as clothes, and fruit flies were seen upstairs.
  — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2018
• Because of their small size, adult fruit flies can easily get in through cracks and tears in bug screens.
  — Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2023
• The main reason is because olive trees left untreated are plagued by the olive fruit fly.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2018
• The fruit flies were identified and confirmed on June 28 and July 2.
  — The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• Place it near your fruit bowl and notice a reduction in fruit flies in a couple days.
  — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
• The map traces the 250-micrometer fruit fly hemibrain–about a third of the total organ.
  — Molly Glick, Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
• Comparing unknown neurons in the human brain to known ones in fruit flies should help close that gap.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• Aside from serving as test subjects and leaders in space, fruit flies have become the go-to model organism for studying and navigating genetics.
  — Barrett Klein, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024