How to Use housefly in a Sentence
housefly
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Moore and Lucas use it like a bazooka to kill a housefly.
—Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
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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
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Keck noted a housefly can go from egg to adult in about a week.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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Swallow a tube of lip balm, perhaps, or snort a housefly.
—Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
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In a dusty open-air building with houseflies buzzing, Marines here received a call for help.
—Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This housefly-size frog, Paedophryne amauensis, has snatched the record as the world’s smallest vertebrate.
—Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2013
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Venus Fly Trap As its name suggests, this carnivorous plant feeds on both houseflies and fruit flies.
—Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 June 2023
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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
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One poster from the campaign shows a forlorn pacifier, abandoned and being soiled by a housefly.
—Robert Krulwich, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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About two to three times the size of a common housefly, these parasites especially love livestock.
—Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The new discovery, currently known as Thiomargarita magnifica is longer than a housefly.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Mar. 2022
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To Magdalena, the American student was like a housefly: an annoyance, certainly, but mostly a harmless one.
—Stephanie Green, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
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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
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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
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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
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