How to Use egg case in a Sentence

egg case

noun

• The mother wasp taps the egg cases to make sure a roach is inside.
  — Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2018
• The wasps hatch, devour the roach inside the egg case and escape by drilling a hole out to freedom.
  — Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2018
• Big Skates lay large, dark brown egg cases that are made of a hard protein.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Usually the egg cases line up end to end like pearls strung on a necklace.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Jones says German cockroaches (the most common kind) can hold up to 90 nymphs per egg case.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 15 June 2023
• The aquarium received two egg cases from the Aquarium of the Bay.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Though adult worms die with the first frost, the egg cases overwinter in soil or organic matter, ready to hatch in spring.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• The orientation of the egg case is ok, the female choses the location and the orientation.
  — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2023
• Charlie says German cockroaches (the most common kind in the country) can hold up to 90 nymphs per egg case.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 13 July 2021
• The egg case is called the ootheca, and the number of nymphs (baby cockroaches) per ootheca varies depending on the type of cockroach.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 15 June 2023
• The egg case is called the Ootheca, and the number of nymphs (baby cockroaches) per Ootheca varies depending on the type of cockroach.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 19 Aug. 2018
• Most of the mantises that hatch from an egg case will die from starvation or cannibalism.
  — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2023
• The baby boom began on Sunday when two seadragons emerged from their egg cases and began swimming in their tank.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• One recent study using data from the project was even able to estimate how many egg cases get eaten by predators, based on tooth marks.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• The researchers determined that after a storm passed, the colonies that aggressively pursued food and resources were able to produce more egg cases.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• Keep an eye out for roach feces, which look similar to ground coffee or coarse black pepper, and egg cases, which can be hidden in dark spaces or even between books in a bookcase.
  — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 18 July 2019
• Behind the female’s bottomless appetite is the extraordinary size of her egg case, or ootheca, a frothy proteinous mass studded with up to 400 eggs that can amount to half her body weight.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Commonly referred to as a mermaid’s purse, each egg case can contain multiple embryos.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Experts recommend inspecting your tree for light brown egg cases, snipping them off, and leaving them outdoors.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2023
• Around 15 percent of the shark and ray egg cases bore evidence of predation, the researchers found, with little difference between elasmobranch species.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• Another novel characteristic of swell sharks is their egg cases, which are long and thin, brownish-yellow pouches.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• Inspectors observed live roaches in all life cycles and an egg case at a Houston restaurant last week, according to inspection reports from August 19 to August 25.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2019
• In Australia, scientists had been speculating for years about the origin of an unusual shark egg case in their country’s National Fish Collection.
  — Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 5 June 2023
• This material, used for capturing prey, rappelling from high places, and building egg cases and dwellings, is itself fantastically diverse, its makeup varying from species to species.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
• The egg cases of Apristurus ovicorrugatus helped scientists identify it as a new species because the cases have lengthwise ridges, or longitudinal ridges.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• Regardless of storm duration, intensity and size, groups previously identified as aggressive were more likely to produce egg cases.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024