How to Use parasite in a Sentence

parasite

noun

• She's a parasite who only stays with him for the money.
• Many diseases are caused by parasites.
• These new companies are parasites feeding off the success of those who spent the last decade establishing the industry.
• The parasites can’t live more than a day or two away from their human host.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• In two people, the challenge with the parasite did not take place for 36 weeks.
  — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• The best plan is to avoid the parasite, especially in rivers and lakes with beavers and muskrats.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2021
• Just keep a careful eye out for those pesky parasites, Keesing says.
  — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
• One of the most widespread parasites on the planet can also be one of the most difficult to study.
  — Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
• These small parasites feed on blood and hatch within about three weeks.
  — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
• My sister has had a parasite in her for a couple years now.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 June 2022
• His thrillers were about parasites that came from within, about demons that took the form of cancer, about a man’s DNA merging with that of a fly.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2024
• Inside many of the patient’s red blood cells, the lab tech had seen a single tiny dark circle — a parasite.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• When native milkweed dies back, the parasite dies along with it.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
• The image shows a fish with its mouth being held open, showing a grotesque parasite.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2021
• In the open ocean, sharks’ rough scales make perfect scratching posts for fish to remove parasites.
  — Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
• This allowed the parasite to move on to its optimal host.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Aug. 2022
• The parasite works on adults, but children resist it (so Caleb’s daughter Frankie was safe).
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 July 2022
• Attempting to get rid of a parasite might bring about this eye disease.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
• The parasite isn’t frequently seen in the United States.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• Then a fungal-like parasite came along, and started rotting the roots.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• The third is the dangerous parasite that such snails may be carrying: the rat lungworm.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• Cougars in Yellowstone National Park are known to be hosts of the parasite.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• His own research has found evidence that the same parasite plays a role in schizophrenia.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• The parasites infect and destroy red blood cells by forcing their cell membrane to break open.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• As my colleague Maria Bustillos put it at Flaming Hydra, the parasite kills the host.
  — Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
• The parasites don’t seem to be as attracted to human skin as other species of native ticks are.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• The parasite and disease are native to Europe and were first detected in the United States in 1958.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
• The way the parasite ends up in the head after being ingested is as unpleasant as the concept of worm eggs in the brain, according to the CDC.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• What happens will depend on how many parasite larvae encased in little cysts were in the meat and subsequently went down your pie hole.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• The mouse or rat may also be carrying parasites such as toxoplasmosis and roundworm, among others.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024