How to Use insect in a Sentence

insect

noun

• But this insect leaves one of the most painful bug bites.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• This plant shows signs of an insect sucking on the sap of the plant.
  — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
• Head Lice Lice are insects that lay eggs while attached to the hairs of the head.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
• And despite their name, the insects are not just found in the bedroom.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• From birth to death, these insects shape the forest around them.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
• Most insects dislike the strong scent and will stay away.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
• Spray the leaves with a strong stream of water to knock most insect pest off the foliage.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• The insects fled only 47 percent of the time when the robot didn’t flash its wings.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Then, place the whole tree over a white sheet, give it a few firm shakes, and watch for any insects that fall off.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
• The insect in the nymph stage has coloring similar to that in the adult stage.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• But a man a few feet away, who was allergic to the insect’s sting, was not alarmed.
  — Noah Lederman, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• The study was the first to find acoustic mimicry between a mammal and an insect.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
• Check for little holes in the husks, which could be insect or worm holes; avoid those ears and move on the next one.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 29 May 2024
• That year, Mars launched a line of cat food made from insects, called LoveBug.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• While there, researchers found a red insect perched on a twig and captured it.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Amazon’s bullet ant may be tiny, but this little insect has the most painful sting in the world.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 July 2022
• While sage brush leaves make up the bulk of the sage grouse’s diet, the birds also feed on other plants and some insects.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• One way to prevent stings is to avoid making the insects feel threatened.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 11 May 2023
• The sharp fragrances of mint and rosemary leaves were meant to repel insects.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• It’s amplified in the tree boughs and joined by gentle insect songs.
  — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• The insect to me looks like a syrphid fly larvae that is eating aphids.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2022
• Starting this spring, trillions of the red-eyed insects crawled their way out of the ground across the Midwest and Southeast.
  — Zach Dyer, NPR, 26 June 2024
• Place a few weatherproof fans around your patio to keep the insects at bay.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 2 June 2023
• Fun fact: Once the leaves fall, the arboretum keeps some of them on the ground for the insect populations.
  — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
• The trick will be adapting DAS to monitor species that aren’t the loudest insects on Earth.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Each night, the bats emerge from their roost, helping to keep the city free of mosquitos and other insects.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023
• After decades of its silence, though, Daley fears this insect was wiped out in the wake of the eruption.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
• These insects tend to go inside humans’ homes to stay safe.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
• Just think of the number of different things that will eat a single insect species.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025