How to Use ladybug in a Sentence

ladybug

noun

• Like, the spiders can live here and the ants can live here and the ladybugs upstairs could live there.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• The tattoo is of hearts, a G clef, a peace sign, a ladybug and an apple.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2022
• In many places, ladybugs are believed to be omens of good luck.
  — Susan Pransky, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
• The tiny ladybug also is meant to bring good luck to their next chapter.
  — Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
• The tiny specks that appeared on the screen turned out to be a swarm of ladybugs, or what's known as a ladybug bloom.
  — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 7 June 2019
• The oldest and youngest were twin zebras; Dorothy and the Tin Man; a ladybug and a bumblebee.
  — Elisabeth Egan, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2018
• Princess Leonore made an adorable ladybug for a portrait shared by mom Princess Madeleine in 2015.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• When a ladybug takes flight, its wings spring open within a tenth of a second—faster than a blink of an eye.
  — Popular Science, 15 Apr. 2020
• For this design, just draw a ladybug pattern with a black paint pen on a pink dyed egg.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
• If your pet is drooling or foaming at the mouth, look for these ladybugs.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Nov. 2016
• Luckily, so are ladybugs, which prey on aphids and keep them in check.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• Slowly, the ladybugs speckled my arms and legs with a Lily Pulitzer-like pattern.
  — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2015
• Kids get bug-like goggles along with a map to introduce them to the bees, ladybugs, ants and spiders in the garden.
  — Sharon Boorstin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Those who attend will be able to paint ladybugs and mandalas.
  — Courant Community, 31 July 2017
• Kids should wear red and pink and come dressed as a ladybug for the Ladybug Costume Contest.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The swarm of insects was so large that Cleveland 19 News picked it up on their weather radar, just like the ladybug bloom that took place a couple of weeks ago.
  — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 2 July 2019
• In June, a swarm of ladybugs moved through San Diego County and was registered on weather radar.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Its antennae had round orange and black tips that looked like tiny ladybugs on top.
  — Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Sep. 2019
• Those first few weeks, ladybugs managed to enter, without ingress, to fly around our bedroom in the attic.
  — Hazlitt, 29 May 2024
• These ladybugs are mostly seen on pines, oaks, elms and other common trees.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2020
• Driving my little red car on this road was like sending a ladybug across a waffle.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 July 2018
• By a front entrance, there was a Comme des Garçons jacket festooned with a furry ladybug pattern priced at a cool $5,023.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• He and his team tried several methods to figure out how the ladybug folded its wing.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
• The San Francisco 49ers all-pro receiver happened to look at his feet and noticed that a ladybug was attached to one of his cleats.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The state is actually known for its hearty ladybug population, and June tends to be a good time to see them in action.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 6 June 2019
• In a spray of gunfire, a 7-year-old girl, dressed as a ladybug, and trick-or-treating with her family, was shot in the chest and neck, CBS Chicago reported.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2019
• The cows sported baseball caps, Hawaii shirts, sunglasses, ladybug wings and more.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• Football players get built-in shoulder pads and detachable helmets about the size of a ladybug.
  — Julia Carmel Jessica Lehrman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• By attracting ladybugs and lacewings, cilantro brings in the main predators for potato-eating insects like aphids, mites, whiteflies, and thrips.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 27 June 2024
• As a defense mechanism, ladybugs secrete a substance that can cause painful mouth and stomach ulcers, Watkins says.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024