How to Use parasitic in a Sentence

parasitic

adjective

• But for the last six weeks, the anti-parasitic has flown off the shelves.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• That is, if the parasitic fungus doesn’t get to them first.
  — Chrystelle L. Vilfranc, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2021
• The parasitic tracheal mite is no more welcome to a hive.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• It’s covered in ivy, which isn’t parasitic but is taking light away from the tree.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2022
• Since the 1950s, the US government has used it to tamp down screwworms, parasitic flies that feed on the flesh of livestock.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 28 June 2023
• The firm shares its name with a parasitic fish, native to the Amazon River basin, that drains the blood of larger fish.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Ivermectin in a pill form is used to treat parasitic worms in humans.
  — Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2021
• An Australian woman had a parasitic live worm plucked from her brain in a world first.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Over time, the Trust hopes that the parasitic wasps could wipe out the moth eggs and stop their population from growing.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Feb. 2021
• Where does the idea that papaya is anti-parasitic come from?
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 6 May 2021
• Like a parasitic virus hugging the face of a real letter.
  — Josh Lieb, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2024
• The final tally: more than 200 of the tiny, parasitic arachnids.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• To show that fires make a dent in the lizards’ parasitic plight, Álvarez Ruiz and her colleagues trekked into the fire-prone wilds of eastern Spain.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 July 2021
• The museum is filled with monsters, from the Kraken to the Vampire, the Werewolf and the parasitic Tingler.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 June 2023
• In general, however, the parasitic worm lives in the lungs of rats.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• The drug is approved for use against some parasitic worms, head lice and some skin conditions.
  — The Enquirer and Fox 19, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2021
• If that doesn't do the trick, there probably is a parasitic draw somewhere else.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
• The parasitic plant is only found in two states — North and South Carolina.
  — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 9 June 2022
• He was treated for mange [a skin disease caused by parasitic mites].
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
• And take a wild guess as to where the parasitic wasp Conobregma bradpitti got its name.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Bedbugs are small, parasitic insects that feed off the blood of humans.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2021
• For its use as an anti-parasitic drug, the FDA has approved 0.2 mg per kilogram of body weight in a single oral dose.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2022
• Either way, the parasitic plant has grown into a fixture of the holiday season in the U.S.
  — Jay Cannon, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
• Two of my favorite trailers for this week share a common theme: parasitic aliens.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 June 2024
• The one weed seed the feds found was dodder, a parasitic plant that climbs up unsuspecting regular plants and sucks the life out of them.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2021
• New parasitic wasps will soon hatch out of them, so leave any parasitized hornworms in place.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
• But this is too parasitic a term to apply to the artfulness occurring in the Newman.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• The parasitic bloom-red flower has long grabbed the attention of scientists and voyeurs alike.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• For instance, a parasitic worm called Paragordius tricuspidatus can force its way out of a predator’s system when its host organism is eaten.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
• Transposable elements are parasitic gene sequences that replicate and insert themselves throughout the genome.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024