How to Use louse in a Sentence

louse

noun
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  • 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
  • The fight against disease Citrus greening, also known as yellow dragon disease, is spread by a kind of louse called the Asian citrus psyllid, the size of a grain of rice.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2018
  • 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

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