How to Use bedbug in a Sentence

bedbug

noun

• There’s a proverb: A bedbug in the wall doesn’t go to a ball.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• The structure was also the home for bedbugs, ticks and rats (not pets).
  — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 28 June 2018
• Rats and bedbugs take up a lot of space in New York pest discourse.
  — Curbed, 21 Apr. 2023
• Then there are the other rumors swirling about the shelters — like the bedbugs.
  — Sarah Smith, star-telegram, 23 Mar. 2018
• Airbnb won’t survive if too many of its rooms come with bedbugs and rude hosts.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 29 May 2017
• Chances are pretty good that anything that kills a bedbug will kill a flea.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
• The bed might be infested with bedbugs, but the TV remote will be germ-free.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2017
• A week later, the second report surfaced with the sighting of a bedbug on the fourth floor.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
• Adult bedbugs are about the size of an apple seed and are long, brown or reddish-brown with flat bodies.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
• This is quite unlike many other types of mites, like lice or bedbugs.
  — Christin Perry, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023
• Since the early 2000s, bedbugs have reemerged and become a global scourge.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
• The President of the United States is tweeting about bedbugs.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2019
• This spring, there were reports of bedbugs in the men’s dorm at another village.
  — Vianna Davila, The Seattle Times, 16 July 2018
• But in 2010, he was banished even from there, neighbors say; bedbugs had turned up in the building, and the management blamed Mr. Singh.
  — Patrick Farrell, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• There were bugs, there were bedbugs, the bathroom was horrible.
  — Jeff Caplan, star-telegram.com, 2 June 2017
• From comments about the fall 2023 bedbug outbreak in Paris, as recorded in news reports.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The inspection of the room did not reveal any evidence of bedbugs.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2018
• A video posted to Facebook shows insects, described by those in the video as bedbugs, crawling out of the benches.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 28 July 2017
• Ugly boils erupt on the girls’ skin after a night in a safe house, apparently from bedbugs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Social media posts appeared to show bedbugs on the metro and in public buses.
  — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Potter said studies done years ago show that about 1 in 3 people don't react to bedbug bites.
  — Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2018
• These exist alongside the boils and bedbugs, the fleeing in the dark, the days and weeks and months of waiting that unmoor a person’s sense of time and strand them in a Kafkaesque eternity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• But Indianapolis can't deny it: It's ranked 11th on Orkin's list of top bedbug cities.
  — Dwight Adams, Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2018
• The owners were convinced they had been infested by bedbugs again.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Residents have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks and, yes, mice — plenty of mice.
  — Regina Garcia Cano and Bernard Condon, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
• Residents have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks, and, yes, mice — plenty of mice.
  — Bernard Condon, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• The central receiving jail was in the midst of a bedbug infestation.
  — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2019
• In many cases, a bedbug bite doesn’t require treatment.
  — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
• While the volunteers looked away, Dean and Siva-Jothy placed a bedbug within the rectangles.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2011
• Items infested with bedbugs can be placed in a freezer for several days.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024