How to Use silverfish in a Sentence

silverfish

noun

• Check out our guides to the best mouse traps and how to get rid of silverfish.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 12 Mar. 2023
• Be aware that the silverfish will consume anything that is high in sugar, starch or protein.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
• Examine these areas and seal them off from the silverfish.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
• Finding silverfish in your home is never a fun surprise, and like most pests, your goal should be to get rid of them as soon as possible.
  — Samantha Lawyer, Country Living, 8 June 2021
• As with most insects, traps exist to capture and kill silverfish.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 20 July 2021
• Both like it moist, but silverfish prefer cool places, while firebrats, as their name suggests, go for warmth.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 4 May 2017
• Her skittering silverfish of a play, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002, glints with meaning that refuses to stay put.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Some papers have been eaten away by silverfish; others have gotten wet and smudged.
  — Tim Parks, New York Times, 11 May 2016
• But keep in mind that the blame may actually be on other bugs such as silverfish, crickets or beetles.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
• Simply wrap a glass jar in textured tape, like medical tape, and place a bit of cereal or other starch inside the jar to attract the silverfish.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2022
• The earliest known insect fossil is a 385-million-year-old wingless creature that looks like a silverfish.
  — Lucas Joel, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Their menu of choice includes ants, silverfish, beetle larvae, spiders, and even roaches.
  — Margeaux Sippell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
• Homemade traps are a non-toxic option that can be effective at catching silverfish.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2022
• Common arthropod guests included silverfish, cockroaches and mosquitos, and all but two percent of households had some form of lice.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2016
• Many of the skeletons were mixed up, their labels faded or eaten by silverfish, and their origins were only traced through century-old correspondence and fading ledgers.
  — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
• Even nonhumans, such as bookworms (so called) and silverfish, that lurk around inside them are given consideration.
  — John Glassie, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• A few years ago, an icebreaker dragged research nets around the Palmer Archipelago, looking for Antarctic silverfish—oily, sardinelike creatures that spawn beneath sea ice.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• These include ants, fleas, crickets, spiders, earwigs, millipedes, silverfish, mites, palmetto bugs, and sow bugs.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
• The Laguna residents work with wild bottlenose dolphins to catch schools of migratory silverfish called mullet.
  — Christina Larson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2023
• House centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrata) tend to lurk in the humid areas of homes looking for prey, including cockroaches, termites, spiders, and silverfish.
  — Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 25 May 2017
• Currently, mackerel, silverfish, sardines and whitefish are some of the offerings.
  — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 20 Aug. 2019
• The experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute work closely with entomologists and pest control professionals to come up with best practices for controlling all kinds of pests, including ants, mice, silverfish and more.
  — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
• Compounds found in the feces of some bugs – including roaches like Periplaneta americana and silverfishes like Lepisma saccharina – can produce allergic reactions in some people, and even cause asthma.
  — Prayan Pokharel, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024