How to Use borer in a Sentence

borer

noun

• Squash vine borers also target cucurbit crops, but vine borers are moths with orange bodies and black wings.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2024
• The polyphagous shot hole borer is about 0.1 inch in length.
  — Lauren Williams, The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
• The borers, which came from Asia on a ship, lay eggs in ash tree bark.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• So, crouching on the ground, Davi twists the borer into one of the trunks.
  — Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
• Whether the holes are dry or wet and bleeding, the pest in this case is one of the borer insects.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• This was the first sighting of the borer in either county.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• Along with the ash borer, the city has blamed the loss of trees on extreme weather due to climate change.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022
• If one end of a corn stalk is left sticking out of the ground the borers in the stalk have an avenue of escape.
  — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2017
• My bet would be that the trunk has borer tunnels in it already.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• There are some areas of the Northeast the borer hasn’t yet reached, like Vermont and Maine.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
• Lessons learned from the war on the oak borer could be applied to future invaders.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
• The tree had shot hole borers a few years ago and has been losing a main branch every year or two.
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2019
• The adult bronze borer is a ½-inch-long, dark, bronzed colored beetle.
  — oregonlive.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• The borer attacks weakened trees, so the best control is to keep your trees healthy.
  — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023
• This is damage caused by a small beetle called a black twig borer.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 May 2020
• The borer is a grub-like caterpillar that burrows into the stem and eats it out, causing the plant to wilt and die.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 15 July 2017
• To avert a fig tree borer infestation, use a net around the base of the tree to stop this pest from laying eggs near the fig tree.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
• One likely cause of this discoloration is the presence of bronze birch borer in your tree.
  — oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2021
• Next, the scientists raised black stem borers in the lab, exposing them to a tube full of sawdust.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Orange oil soaks into the bark and wood, kills the borers and sets up a repellent fragrance.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Not long afterward, the first ash-borers appeared in the Michigan woods.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
• The word trepanation comes from the Greek trypanon, meaning a borer.
  — Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
• If plants suddenly wilt, check for the squash vine borer feeding inside the stem.
  — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
• The hotheaded naked ice borer now has its own Wikipedia page and appears on lists of the greatest hoaxes of all time.
  — Paul Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2011
• The flowing sap may have been from the holes of a borer which commonly kills weeping cherry.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2019
• What is a good replacement for ash trees killed by emerald ash borer?
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 4 May 2017
• William Heise County Park near Julian lost thousands of oaks to the gold spotted oak borer, a pest that has attacked trees across the state.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 May 2017
• An Emerald ash borer will be represented as well, the bug that killed this Ash tree.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
• Instead of taking a full core sample of the tree’s rings, Barichivich and Lara used an increment borer to draw a narrow plug of wood from the tree.
  — Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• The ash borer is not the only species devastating U.S. forests.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024