How to Use boll weevil in a Sentence

boll weevil

noun

• The pheromones lured boll weevils into traps where they could be sprayed with pesticides.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• But more than a century ago, a small creature – the boll weevil – nearly destroyed this town.
  — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2022
• Well, the city’s latest boll weevil statue is right there outside the McDonald’s.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 5 Apr. 2022
• Adding to these burdens were the poor soil and periodic ravages of the pestilential boll weevil.
  — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
• In the years that followed, hundreds of Black workers would make the journey from the South, fleeing Jim Crow laws, the boll weevil, devastating floods and racial violence.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2020
• But the boll weevil’s story was different in Enterprise.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Gruene began to declined by the 1920s after boll weevil beetles infested local crops.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022
• The boll weevil, wrecker of cotton, enters the state, having migrated from Mexico.
  — al, 28 Nov. 2019
• A century ago, cotton farmers in Enterprise, Ala., faced disaster when their crops were wiped out by an invasive species, the boll weevil.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
• In 1919, city leaders commissioned a marble figure from an Italian sculptor to commemorate the change, later adding a large boll weevil atop the statue.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2022
• Enterprise has a long history of celebrating the boll weevil.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2022
• The family has survived droughts, tornadoes and the boll weevil during the century and a half that successive generations have been farming.
  — James Estrin, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
• Cotton farming declined as fertility decreased and the boll weevil infested crops.
  — Alia Malik, ajc, 10 Feb. 2022
• Meanwhile, Southern farmers were encouraged to cultivate peanut crops after the boll weevil decimated cotton production.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• White arsenic was a key ingredient for manufacturing boll weevil pesticides.
  — Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024