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Example sentences for "commensals"

Lexicographically close words:
commendeth; commending; commends; commensal; commensalism; commensurability; commensurable; commensurate; commensuration; comment
  1. Some sea-anemones also are commensals [pg267] with hermits.

  2. Some species seem to prefer association with other animals and live as commensals with crabs.

  3. However, it seems significant that the cockroach commensals of the insects listed below have been found only in association with their hosts and, so far as we know, have never been found apart from them.

  4. Associations in which cockroaches serve as commensals or predators.

  5. Mites of this family live as ectoparasites and commensals on beetles and possibly other insects (Baker and Wharton, 1952).

  6. It should also be pointed out that some workers would consider certain of our commensals of cockroaches to be parasites.

  7. Certain of the organisms we list as commensals may eventually be shown to be parasites.

  8. Other associations of cockroaches, as commensals with other insects and as associates of other cockroaches, are discussed in chapters XV and XVII.

  9. While thus striking at some of the more flagrant abuses of the fuero, Leo opened the door to worse ones by admitting familiars and the commensals or servants of officials to participation in the immunities of the Inquisition.

  10. The fuero should be withdrawn from the servants and commensals of officials whose insolence gave occasion to arrests and censures causing dissensions that scandalized the whole kingdom.

  11. She was their help, but she became their hindrance when she insisted upon the primitive custom after 'waiting at table' had passed the stage when the dishes were all set down, and the commensals 'did their own stretching.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commensals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.