How to Use weevil in a Sentence

weevil

noun

• The female weevil chews her way into the base of the plant to lay her eggs in spring.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• The female weevil chews her way into the base of the plant to lay her eggs in spring.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• The root weevil larvae are white with a tan head, and C-shaped.
  — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020
• If the culprit is a weevil, go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief—and maybe even check the critter out.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 July 2022
• The weevil’s young (grubs) eat the roots, turning them into a stinky, liquid pool.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• Salvinia weevils, like the plant, are from the tropics and are vulnerable to cold.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• The ending, ‘Zyzzyva’, is a paean to a genus of tropical weevil.
  — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
• In less than 10 years, the weevil has spread from the Mexican border as far north as La Jolla.
  — Linda Jones, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
• The album, 'Arthur Buck,' approaches ear weevil stages at about the fourth listen.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2019
• Rather, the story goes, African-Americans left in 1912 because of the boll weevil or, if there was violence, the Klan.
  — Carol Anderson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• Around 130 million years ago, a weevil gorged itself on wood pulp and died a sticky death in the relentless grasp of slow-moving resin.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
• Pea weevils can chew on foliage, especially along the edges of young leaves.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2017
• The nematodes have even been used to save Florida oranges from demise at the hungry mandibles of the citrus root weevil.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017
• Keep in mind that this trap is not exclusive to root weevils and may trap beneficials as well.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• In the beginning, crop treatments for weevils took place every 10 days.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al.com, 14 July 2019
• That weevil lived alongside the dinosaurs; its death may even have occurred in the presence of brachiosaurus, which once ambled around the same forestland.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
• If startled, a New Zealand giraffe weevil will hurl itself from a tree.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• The holes are either from pecan weevils or hickory shuckworms.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• More than 20 weevils were also found inside the masa container.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 21 May 2018
• That’s because Nevis’s mango trees, for all their wonders, can be affected by the mango seed weevil.
  — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 28 July 2019
• On a night-time field trip in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, Frank spotted this bizarre-looking weevil clinging to a fern stem.
  — Johnny Simon, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2019
• During the spring of 1955, many of these growers undertook a large-scale program to control the strawberry-root weevil, whose larvae had become abundant on the roots of the hops.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• Then in the 20th century came the boil weevil, followed by mechanization.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al.com, 14 July 2019
• The weevil's spots consist of circular scales of chitin, neatly arranged into concentric rings of varying hues like a rainbow: blue in the center, all the way out to red at the edges.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2018
• Not making her list of favorite foods, however, was grilled palm weevil larvae.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 11 Aug. 2017
• The collection itself has two main themes: weevils and planthoppers.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 24 Mar. 2017
• The argument, along with others from golf courses that use chlorpyrifos to fight a stubborn breed of weevil, won out in Annapolis, for now.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• That would be Mofeed Abu Shalwa, whose winning images included a red palm weevil and a flower crab spider.
  — Daniel Berehulak, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
• Standing in his field, Nilakanti watched boll weevils pop up their heads as if in a greeting and then resume their business of eating away his cotton crop.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2003
• That’s the result of deadly, invasive South American palm weevils.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024