How to Use midge in a Sentence

midge

noun

• In the clear water, the purple midge flashed like a beacon.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2023
• Aphid Midge Pollen plants will bring aphid midges to your garden.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2016
• But for the thousands of moths, midges, and mayflies flitting around in the darkness, these are places of death.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• And these are the best flies and tactics to use during a winter midge hatch.
  — John Fedorka, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2020
• Summer months are best, and though midges are a pest, they can be tamed with bug spray and a light breeze.
  — Danielle Bernabe, National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2019
• Why are there so many midge flies by Lake Michigan right now?
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
• Calabrese noted that a day in the life of an adult midge can be very stressful.
  — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 14 May 2021
• The disease is caused by a virus and is spread by midges, small biting insects.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2019
• My wasp bite was bitten by a mosquito and then a midge.
  — Author: Shannyn Moore, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
• Fly casters should try stoneflies, San Juan worms, and midges.
  — sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
• People can think that because of their small size, midges are baby mayflies.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 19 May 2020
• Between the midges and the mayflies, every week there's a new infestation.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• The bugs are believed to be midges, which is actually good news.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 18 June 2018
• The riverbottom is home to huge numbers of scuds and larvae from midges, caddis, stones, and mayflies.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
• Sometimes called black flies or midges, gnats are small, flying insects that live near rivers and streams.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 13 July 2024
• In fact, since some species of midges are designed for frigid water, trout sometimes eat them right through the winter.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 30 Mar. 2020
• Clouds of midges are basically the singles bars for lake flies.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2018
• In 2007, the bluetongue virus—a disease spread by midge bites—began to sweep through herds of sheep and cattle across Europe.
  — Popular Science, 20 May 2020
• Later that year, the Yankees were done in — not just by the Indians, but by the midges that swarmed them in a playoff game in Cleveland.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2016
• To avoid the midges, book your trip to Scotland between late September and early May.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Dry fly action has picked up, with anglers catching fish on small midges when the sun is shining.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 16 Feb. 2018
• Right now, Clevelanders are experiencing the last of the midges, a smaller Lake Erie bug that emerged in mid-May.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 18 June 2019
• Avoid the height of summer when more visitors—and midges—descend on Scotland.
  — Freya Bromley, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
• The virus that causes EHD is carried by a biting gnat known as a midge and is both contagious and fatal.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
• During the summer, the midges' entire life cycle can be completed in just a few weeks.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
• These are perfect conditions for midges to hatch and cluster.
  — John Fedorka, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2020
• Adults live only about a month, hunting flies, mosquitos, and midges.
  — National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2020
• But when the midge population is low, fish die and birds don’t reproduce.
  — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2016
• The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• One such is the marine splash midge, a fly originally from Australia.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024