How to Use bedbug in a Sentence
bedbug
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Be diligent, as bedbugs can hide in the most inconspicuous of places.
— Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2024 -
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 -
People check in, the room is filled with bedbugs, with cockroaches, it hasn’t been cleaned.
— Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024 -
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 -
The newspaper found squalid conditions in the foundation’s buildings, residents under threat of eviction, roach and bedbug infestations and high rates of code enforcement and public health complaints.
— Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
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