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cockroach

[ UK /kˈɒkɹə‍ʊt‍ʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑˌkɹoʊtʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

How To Use cockroach In A Sentence

  • Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca. Boing Boing
  • Truth, however gently expressed, cuts deep; cockroaches do not deter starvelings from the soup.
  • Other containers house giant cockroaches and itty-bitty arachnid hatchlings, a few months old and smaller than a pinky nail.
  • You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
  • Where the hulk is the only person alive on earth, a hundred years after nuclear fallout, with cockroaches the only things on the planet. Mark Millar Pitches His 8-Hour Epic Trilogy of Superman Films | /Film
  • Wise choice, but first, some chee-chee! fastlane: Eat Uncle Dirty's World Famous Trouser Chile. cockroach: I'm whispering in yer shoutbox LinkSwarm.com
  • He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!” At a Welsh Wedding
  • As a native of the area around Mobile, Alabama, a place long ridiculed by many as the nation's stepchild, it amused me that what was disdained as a redneck corner of the universe populated by ignorant and racist whites and besieged blacks became the "sunbelt" in the 1970s and as soon as those "cheeseheads" arrived in "crackerland" with no more need for their snowtires and discovered giant flying cockroaches and mildew among other horrors and complained mightily about the tropics they had naively sought, they became disenchanted. Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05
  • If you have a cockroach problem, call in a fumigator instead.
  • Removing the space prevents cockroaches and other pests from residing in the dark corners.
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