How to Use parasite in a Sentence

parasite

noun
  • She's a parasite who only stays with him for the money.
  • Many diseases are caused by parasites.
  • These new companies are parasites feeding off the success of those who spent the last decade establishing the industry.
  • The parasites can’t live more than a day or two away from their human host.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In two people, the challenge with the parasite did not take place for 36 weeks.
    Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The best plan is to avoid the parasite, especially in rivers and lakes with beavers and muskrats.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Just keep a careful eye out for those pesky parasites, Keesing says.
    Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • One of the most widespread parasites on the planet can also be one of the most difficult to study.
    Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
  • These small parasites feed on blood and hatch within about three weeks.
    Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
  • My sister has had a parasite in her for a couple years now.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 June 2022
  • His thrillers were about parasites that came from within, about demons that took the form of cancer, about a man’s DNA merging with that of a fly.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • Inside many of the patient’s red blood cells, the lab tech had seen a single tiny dark circle — a parasite.
    New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • When native milkweed dies back, the parasite dies along with it.
    Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The image shows a fish with its mouth being held open, showing a grotesque parasite.
    Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
  • In the open ocean, sharks’ rough scales make perfect scratching posts for fish to remove parasites.
    Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
  • This allowed the parasite to move on to its optimal host.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The parasite works on adults, but children resist it (so Caleb’s daughter Frankie was safe).
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 July 2022
  • Attempting to get rid of a parasite might bring about this eye disease.
    Korin Miller, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The parasite isn’t frequently seen in the United States.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Then a fungal-like parasite came along, and started rotting the roots.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The third is the dangerous parasite that such snails may be carrying: the rat lungworm.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 July 2022
  • Cougars in Yellowstone National Park are known to be hosts of the parasite.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • His own research has found evidence that the same parasite plays a role in schizophrenia.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The parasites infect and destroy red blood cells by forcing their cell membrane to break open.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
  • As my colleague Maria Bustillos put it at Flaming Hydra, the parasite kills the host.
    Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
  • The parasites don’t seem to be as attracted to human skin as other species of native ticks are.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The parasite and disease are native to Europe and were first detected in the United States in 1958.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The way the parasite ends up in the head after being ingested is as unpleasant as the concept of worm eggs in the brain, according to the CDC.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • What happens will depend on how many parasite larvae encased in little cysts were in the meat and subsequently went down your pie hole.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The mouse or rat may also be carrying parasites such as toxoplasmosis and roundworm, among others.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

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