How to Use bug out in a Sentence

bug out

verb

• Then a bug out room outside the diamond for the night of the 6th.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2022
• As those plants dry out, the grasshoppers bug out in search of food.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 30 July 2019
• For those who may get bugged out and need a break, 8 miles of scenic trails await hikers.
  — Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• At least with a chimp, there would be somebody to eat the bugs out of Rudy Giuliani's hair.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2018
• Its large, dark eyes bug out from a flattened head covered in faint pale dots.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2018
• This was three years after the Raiders had bugged out for Los Angeles.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
• Zip-open panels on the sides and rear of the tent allow ventilation, while mesh keeps the bugs out.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• One of these rifles, properly set up, will make your eyes bug out with bug-sized groups.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
• Choose a vessel with a narrow top to keep bugs out, and do not change the water if possible.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• Christopher Walken’s red-rimmed eyes bug out toward the viewer as if from a 3-D horror film.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• When my grandma came back from the store with a dozen Krispy Kremes, my eyes bugged out of my skull and my tongue unfurled from my mouth like a carpet and steam blew out of my ears.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 13 July 2018
• Giuliani asked Sean Hannity last night, his eyes bugging out of his head.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 3 May 2018
• Chocolate-peanut butter milkshakes so thick that my eyes would bug out trying to suck them through a straw. Fondue.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 27 Apr. 2018
• Their damage is mostly economic, coming in the form of sick days, when people are told to sit tight, drink some fluids, and wait the bug out.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
• Once testers finish wringing the bugs out of the beta versions, Apple will issue them to customers.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2017
• On a recent cool morning here, mallards flew overhead, pelicans swam on the lake, coots picked bugs out of the mud, and a lone doe sauntered through tall grass.
  — Adam Popescu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Check your bug out bags and prepper materials, stock up.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2020
• Keep glass and bugs out Shards of broken glass can pierce your vacuum bag, Morris says, causing it to leak and send dirt into the motor.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Make bugs out of recycled lids and other art supplies, watch as sheep are sheared, visit a bird-feed-making station and more.
  — Alison Stanton, azcentral, 13 Apr. 2018
• This sleek kit is a great fit for your camping gear, vehicle, tackle box, disaster kit or bug out bag.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2019
• Naturally, people bugged out over that look in the comments section.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 13 July 2023
• Generally, the photographers who might have shot some of those images have long since bugged out, or have been captured or killed.
  — TIME.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Jeanelle Cornelius still remembers her son Brandon as an easygoing 25-year-old who’d play video games with his buddies and catch and release a bug out of the house instead of kill it.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• This unscented spray contains 25% DEET and is formulated for all the deep woods bugs out there like ticks, mosquitoes, gnats, and biting flies.
  — Steven Rowe, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• People totally bugged out in the comments—and referenced her iconic role as Betty Draper in Mad Men.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 1 May 2023
• When firefighters arrived, McGee was lying on the floor — half in the bedroom, half in the bathroom — still naked and incoherent, his eyes bugged out, his pupils dilated, Watanabe said.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Amazon says the intervening year has given it time to shake the bugs out of the new facility, which now employs 2,000 – a third more than the company initially forecast.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Urban bug out kits are not complete without this simple water procurement tool.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Nov. 2019
• The Philadelphia railroad has had to move slowly to get both conductors and riders used to the changes, and to work the bugs out of the software, Derwinski said during Metra’s monthly board meeting.
  — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Those big-as-hubcap pupils bugging out from Mike Singletary’s face, the Hall of Famer’s intensity unmistakable.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024