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.
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This year appears to be the year of the parasite, Mr. Moore said.
—New York Times, 20 July 2021
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Wilder wants to know what the parasite needs to be able to erupt from the liver.
—oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
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That is, the parasite wants to keep its host alive to ensure a steady stream of fresh food.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
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For decades, the drug has been used to treat malaria—which is caused by a parasite, not a virus.
—James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
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The parasites can’t live more than a day or two away from their human host.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
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In two people, the challenge with the parasite did not take place for 36 weeks.
—Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
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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
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Down to the molecular level, the parasite is pulling the strings.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
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The usual causes of bee death, such as a nasty parasite known as the varroa mite, do not seem to be the cause.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2025
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Players will be able to run faster and jump higher with a parasite on board.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 June 2021
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Just keep a careful eye out for those pesky parasites, Keesing says.
—Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
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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
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These small parasites feed on blood and hatch within about three weeks.
—Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
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If a fish has any sort of parasite or virus, the disease has the potential to spread to other species.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 20 Nov. 2019
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The cause of the headaches, weakness and pain were trypanosomes, tiny parasites spread by the bite of the tsetste fly — a companion of the elephants.
—SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019
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My sister has had a parasite in her for a couple years now.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 June 2022
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To a parasite, a fish is a habitat just as complex as a kelp forest.
—Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
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In some infected cells, the parasite produces sticky proteins that rise to the surface of the cells.
—Donald G. McNeil Jr., Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
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The mud helps buffalo get rid of ticks and parasites that latch onto their skin.
—Kylie Mohr, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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When native milkweed dies back, the parasite dies along with it.
—Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
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The image shows a fish with its mouth being held open, showing a grotesque parasite.
—Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
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In the open ocean, sharks’ rough scales make perfect scratching posts for fish to remove parasites.
—Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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With malaria Chloroquine works by interfering with the growth of the parasite in the cells.
—Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 21 Mar. 2020
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In the case of the rattail, the parasites had apparently not crippled the fish, which quickly swam away while being studied, researchers noted.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
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The agency reported that testing for parasites, bacteria, viruses and more than 250 chemicals, as well as checks for such issues as toxic red tide, turned up nothing definitive.
—Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025
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