How to Use tapeworm in a Sentence

tapeworm

noun

• The Post's Sarah Kaplan put it best: The life of a tapeworm unfolds over three stages.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• If the worker dies before then, the tapeworm dies with it.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Both dogs got tapeworm—which was disgusting—and had to stay out in the yard till the pills went to work.
  — T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Segments of tapeworm detach and are passed via the stool.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• Wrapped around it is, of course, this giant, long — what looks like a flat tapeworm, just sitting in there.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• So far, the research team has isolated five tapeworm eggs from the muck.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• So far, the research team has isolated five tapeworm eggs from the muck.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• Also, talk to your vet about treating for tapeworms; pets with fleas are at risk.
  — Karen Asp, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2020
• The ghastly glow of a tapeworm lights up one image, the fuzz of mold emerges from a tomato in another.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
• Bahn brought the tapeworm, wrapped around a cardboard toilet-paper roll, with him.
  — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• One of the most common parasites, fleas, has tapeworm eggs.
  — Doggie Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• One of them—a tapeworm Gardner fished out of a camas pocket gopher—turned out to be a species new to science.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
• Sure enough, there was a tapeworm wrapped around a cardboard toilet paper tube.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
• The other drug is niclosamide, used to treat tapeworms and other parasites.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
• The defense tactic has worked for the hagfish, an eel-like animal that looks like an oversized tapeworm.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2017
• In 2014, for instance, a tapeworm species foreign to humans was found in a man’s brain in China, leading to seizures and inflammation of the brain.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
• Some of the cats had health issues, however; some were pregnant, others were skinny or had fleas and tapeworms.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2019
• In the case of the Massachusetts man, Boston doctors saw a case of a tapeworm that was still affecting him decades later.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
• This was a tiny tapeworm, about a quarter of an inch long: Echinococcus granulosus.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• By lengthening the life of the worker by years, the tapeworm improves the odds that a woodpecker will eventually show up.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Usually, someone has to swallow eggs found in the feces of a person who has an intestinal tapeworm to end up in such a state.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Dec. 2020
• If your dog eats a flea that’s carrying a tapeworm larva, the tapeworm—a type of parasite—can transfer to their body and appear in your dog’s stool.
  — Shelby Deering, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2021
• One canine coprolite contained the eggs of fish tapeworm, so the dog would have consumed raw freshwater fish at some point.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• The lifts must no longer be hidden away like tapeworms in the niches of stairwells; the stairwells themselves, rendered useless, must be abolished, and the lifts must scale the lengths of the façades like serpents of steel and glass.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2008
• The patient was admitted to the hospital, where an MRI and other tests confirmed these masses weren’t cysts, but were the larvae of tapeworms.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• Question: There have been some pretty gruesome emergencies this season, like the guy who gets burned in a tanning bed and the man with a 7-foot tapeworm inside him.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• Fleas can also transmit diseases, as well as tapeworms.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 3 Mar. 2020
• Other riverside residents have suffered seizures caused by tapeworms three to six millimeters wide in the walls of their brains.
  — Preetika Rana, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• There are several parasites that can do damage in the human brain, but the most common in the Americas is the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024