How to Use louse in a Sentence

louse

noun

• Her ex-husband is a real louse.
• Once hatched and hooked in with the use of its claws, a louse can live for up to 30 days, feeding on its host's blood.
  — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2018
• Check in on your sister who is married to the stubborn louse.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 11 May 2023
• According to the state, the creature is a tongue-eating louse.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
• Many treatments need to be reapplied in seven days due to the life cycle of nit to louse.
  — Alena Hall, Verywell Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• The winery name and logo evoke the vine louse that destroyed much of Europe’s vineyards in the late 1800s.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• The lice themselves are no worse than normal head lice — just harder to kill.
  — Morgan Cook, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• But she's obsessed with the louse she's been chasing for years, and with a corpse just reeled in from the Boston Harbor.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2021
• It’s one thing to be a total louse to your girlfriend, but to do that to your daughter is awful!
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
• The best way to check for lice, according to the AAP, is for parents to inspect their children at home.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• An adult louse can be light brown or grey, is two-three millimeters long, and has a lifespan of about 30 days.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 27 Aug. 2020
• Dangond blends his vallenato with traces of reggaeton and salsa in a track where the man steps in to help the girl get over a louse.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 June 2018
• Vines not needing such grafting are rare but still exist on sandy soils, through which the louse cannot tunnel.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• Dead or dying lice, again, can be removed with a fine-toothed comb of your fingernails.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• For starters, it's caused by tiny jellyfish larvae, not lice.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 27 June 2018
• The word louse refers to unpleasant or contemptible people.
  — Rachel D'oro, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• The fish is an Atlantic croaker, whose mouth had been occupied by a tongue-eating louse.
  — Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
• Three are animals — goose-geese, mouse-mice, and louse-lice; two are parts of the body — tooth-teeth and foot-feet; and two are people — man-men and woman-women.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• Lurking among the captive fish is a tiny nemesis: Lepeophtheirus salmonis, aka the sea louse.
  — Amanda Little, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• But bear in mind, too, the poem’s other point: A louse may be burrowing in anyone’s coiffure, even our own.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
• According to the park, the louse enters a fish’s mouth through its gills, severs the tongue and serves as a functioning tongue while feeding on mucus.
  — Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
• This shape hair is physically easier for the louse claw to attach to.
  — Danielle James, Allure, 28 Dec. 2021
• Since lice are big fans of the hair surrounding the genitals, using condoms won’t protect you, the CDC explains.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 27 July 2018
• Itching can persist even after the infestation has been treated and the lice are gone.
  — Jolie Kerr, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
• As liquid builds up inside the louse, its internal organs start to shut down from the exhaustion of trying to pump out the water.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• Fourteen of the 23 males donated or received at least one louse, and some of them seemed to be superdonors, spreading their lice far and often.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2012
• The scalp itch comes from the saliva that the louse injects into the scalp, which leads to a tiny local inflammatory (and itchy) reaction.
  — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Thanks to evolution, the pesky parasites known as lice have become resistant to most over-the-counter treatments.
  — Good Housekeeping, 26 Feb. 2016
• Fleas and lice transmit the bacteria that causes typhus when the bugs defecate upon biting and the excrement infects the wound.
  — Maia Pandey, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• Mouse lemurs are parasitized by a particular species of louse, Lemurpediculus verruculosus, which feed off the lemurs' blood.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024