How to Use housefly in a Sentence

housefly

noun

• Moore and Lucas use it like a bazooka to kill a housefly.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• On the front, there are four or five of these fur tufts, which kind of remind you of a housefly.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 27 Oct. 2022
• Keck noted a housefly can go from egg to adult in about a week.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• To put this in perspective, that’s about equal to the weight of a housefly on your hand on Earth.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• The total force is roughly the same as the weight of a housefly landing on your hand on Earth.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• Swallow a tube of lip balm, perhaps, or snort a housefly.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• In a dusty open-air building with houseflies buzzing, Marines here received a call for help.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Some folks just can’t help being loud in bed, but noisy liaisons can lead to a swift death… at least for a housefly.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
• Barrett tossed up a high floater, and Howard rose higher still and swatted the ball as if slapping a housefly.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• Somehow, someway, my wife and I have worked from home part-time while corralling a 3-year-old who has the patience of a housefly.
  — Pete Croatto, Good Housekeeping, 4 June 2020
• This option is not made for killing bugs larger than a housefly and works best on mosquitoes.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023
• This housefly-size frog, Paedophryne amauensis, has snatched the record as the world’s smallest vertebrate.
  — Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2013
• Venus Fly Trap As its name suggests, this carnivorous plant feeds on both houseflies and fruit flies.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 June 2023
• The predators hunt grubs, aphids, and houseflies — other pests that annoy at outdoor dinners and in your garden.
  — Jean Nick, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2018
• One poster from the campaign shows a forlorn pacifier, abandoned and being soiled by a housefly.
  — Robert Krulwich, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2016
• People can be forgiving, our attention spans rival the life cycle of a housefly — one of the plot’s premises — move on.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• Japanese quails were also among the list of animals that were tested along with insects such as houseflies and moths.
  — Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2019
• Keep an eye out—particularly in the Northwest—for carrot rust flies, which look like small green houseflies with yellow heads and red eyes.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 30 Aug. 2017
• On Adam’s computer screen, the ship now looked like a robotic housefly, its proboscis probing toward an enormous, crumbly piece of gray bread.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 8 June 2020
• About two to three times the size of a common housefly, these parasites especially love livestock.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2019
• Just as Pence was discussing racial injustice and the police killing of Breonna Taylor, a housefly landed on his head.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020
• The parasitic fungus is known to infect other fly species, including the common housefly, but this is the first time researchers have studied it in fruit flies.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
• In the past, the hospital’s ENT department has removed a leach, houseflies, and maggots from patients’ nasal cavities.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2017
• Federal, state and local agricultural officials plan to eradicate the fly, which is about the size of a housefly with black and yellow markings.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
• Flies and Gnats An infestation of houseflies, gnats, fruit flies, midges and other flying insects is best remedied by a multi-level approach.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2020
• The new discovery, currently known as Thiomargarita magnifica is longer than a housefly.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Mar. 2022
• To Magdalena, the American student was like a housefly: an annoyance, certainly, but mostly a harmless one.
  — Stephanie Green, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• Birds were represented by Japanese quail; brown shrimp, pink shrimp and oysters were used to represent shellfish; houseflies and moths joined the cockroaches to represent insects; and guppies and minnows were used to represent fish.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 29 July 2019
• Besides roaches, bed bugs, head lice, houseflies, mosquitoes and other common insects in our houses have developed resistance to our pesticides.
  — Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2018
• According to a pest profile from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, an adult is approximately 7 millimeters in length, similar to a housefly, with a yellow body with black markings.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024