How to Use millipede in a Sentence

millipede

noun

• Even more basic: Despite the name, the millipede with the most legs has 750.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• According to Greshko, the ants were afraid of everything from millipedes to mites to smaller ants.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
• According to Greshko, the ants were afraid of everything from millipedes to mites to smaller ants.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 May 2017
• The team also discovered four more new species of millipede.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• This species, however, was bright and the only orange millipede in its genus, according to the study.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
• Clean up hiding places for slugs, sowbugs and millipedes.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
• The porous limestone walls are laced with thick brown arteries of twigs and creepers; below it, the ground teems with large ants and dark-blue millipedes which dart through the dirt.
  — 1843, 20 Feb. 2020
• Researchers in Australia announced the discovery of the first true millipede, with 1,306 legs.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• In your situation, the millipedes seem to be feeding on already decaying corms and are not the cause of the problem.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023
• The first true millipede has been discovered in Australia.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
• The Los Angeles thread millipede — a tiny creature that’s been found crawling in some SoCal parks.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• Imagine a giant millipede crawling along the jungle floor with a leggy, eight-foot-long body.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2022
• Yes, cyanide—the same chemical compound that spies put in their worst-case-scenario capsules and millipedes emit to keep predators away.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 May 2017
• Yes, cyanide—the same chemical compound that spies put in their worst-case-scenario capsules and millipedes emit to keep predators away.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 May 2017
• Since the 1800s, the cliffs have yielded numerous finds, including tracks and segments of millipedes that may have been seven feet long.
  — National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2016
• Stick insects, millipedes and grasshoppers all light up under UV light.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• And thriving in these flammable forests were eight-foot-long millipedes and hawk-sized dragonfly relatives.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
• The first ever true millipede with over 1,000 legs has been discovered in western Australia.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2021
• And giant African millipedes (the same species of arthropods that escaped from a package addressed to Wlodzimie Lapkiewicz)?
  — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2019
• Eumillipes Persephone is an eyeless millipede that has over 1,000 legs across its long body.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Dec. 2021
• On the ground, the eight-foot millipede Arthropleura Armata crawled around; it’s believed to be the largest invertebrate in the history of Earth.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2022
• Think of spiders or millipedes, neither of which trip over themselves, despite being equipped only with bug brains.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• According to a press release by the University of Cambridge, the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede—as big as a mid-size car—has been found on a beach in the north of England.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Scientists discovered the pink dragon millipede in 2007 in the Greater Mekong region of Thailand.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2017
• While the gonopods are on the seventh segment, the millipede’s sperm actually originates on the second segment.
  — National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2017
• According to a press release, the millipede-like fossil is about 550 million years old and was found in rock formations near the city of Yiling in east central China.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2019
• Some big oak tress can shelter 1 glowing millipede in every square metre.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2011
• However, until now, the most legs any millipede was known to have was 750 with Illacme plenipes from California.
  — ABC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• This is one of the flatter millipede species, an herbivore who mainly feeds on decaying plant matter.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2019
• Similarly, lemurs chew on toxic millipedes to get high, and big-horn sheep seek out a rare form of narcotic lichen, grinding their teeth right to the gums to scrape every last bit from the rocks in order to get their fix.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024