How to Use mayfly in a Sentence

mayfly

noun

• To follow Trump was to be a mayfly and a pine tree at once.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
• These tiny black mayflies with clear wings are like candy to the trout.
  — Lydia Lohrer, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2018
• With all due respect, that coalition had the life span of a mayfly.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Since Tiger, the over/under on the life expectancy of a world No. 1 is that of a mayfly.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• At the width of a couple of kozo fibers, the paper becomes as thin as the wings of a mayfly.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• But for the thousands of moths, midges, and mayflies flitting around in the darkness, these are places of death.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• It’s the only Arctic mountain mayfly in the British Isles.
  — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• The first year, though, the warm water attracted mayflies that bred and filled the lake with writhing larvae.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2016
• Little of this comes through in the film, which is about the mayfly moment and three people at its center.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Some would sip the mouse like a tiny mayfly; others would leap completely out of the water, grabbing the fly on the way down.
  — Chris Santella, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
• Adult mayflies live for just a few days, such a short time that evolution didn’t even provide them with a mouth.
  — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
• Fly anglers scored a few trout on mayflies and woolly buggers.
  — sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
• Between the midges and the mayflies, every week there's a new infestation.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• The riverbottom is home to huge numbers of scuds and larvae from midges, caddis, stones, and mayflies.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
• Hollywood marriages can be as evanescent as the life span of mayflies.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2017
• The winners of the challenge were just announced; Ferenc Kocsis’ image of Danube mayflies in flight took the top prize.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 11 May 2023
• From this perspective, human life was even shorter than the mayfly's one day on earth.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Here is the mayfly on my hand bringing itself into synch with my biorhythms.
  — John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Most of the mayfly action in mid to late fall involves that group of species collectively known as blue-winged olives.
  — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
• The mayfly hatch that put a little bit of a hiccup in the walleye catches around Western Lake Erie is winding down.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 7 July 2022
• Many of the sport anglers and fishing guides are trolling the wide waters, which were littered with the skeletons of millions of hatching mayflies.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 5 July 2019
• Not to mention component and frame standards that have the life expectancy of a mayfly.
  — Josh Patterson, Outside Online, 18 May 2020
• My collecting trips have yielded more than 100 new species of mayflies and stoneflies.
  — Boris Kondratieff, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• The massive mayfly hatch earlier in the week did not seem to have its usual effect of slowing the walleye bite.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• That’s not bad compared with some adult female mayflies, which live for under five minutes—just long enough to mate and lay eggs.
  — Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 23 July 2016
• Anglers dislike them because the Lake Erie fishing can go into a bit of a funk when the mayfly hatching reaches a peak.
  — cleveland, 25 June 2020
• So the party at the gas station in Slidell was probably the mayfly meet-up of a lifetime for just about everyone involved.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 30 May 2018
• In recent years, birds, ants, bats, termites, mayflies, grasshoppers, and beetles have all been spotted on radar.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
• Out of Sight, in the meantime, is a mayfly that appears briefly — this year in an old furniture building at 115 S. Jackson St., plus the building next door.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2017
• Tailwaters tend to produce prolific hatches of small mayflies, and their trout tend to refuse flies that don’t imitate the real thing.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024