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Example sentences for "lice"

Lexicographically close words:
libros; librum; libs; libus; lica; liceat; licebit; liceman; licence; licenced
  1. There may be one or two Great big fat lice on you, NO LICE ON US.

  2. Now take our National Anthem straight, Father: "There are no lice on us, There are no lice on us, No lice on us.

  3. So it came about that one could often see great fleas or lice walk upon his clothes, of which he was not ashamed at all, but would laugh if any one pocked one out.

  4. Say not so," said Oliver, "for if thou wilt abide with me thou canst earn more ducats than thou hast lice now.

  5. And after he has looked around, and finished eating, he comes to lay his head in my lap and have me look for the lice in his head.

  6. So his wife cooked his dinner, and he ate it and then asked her to look for the lice in his head.

  7. What she really wanted to do was either to have a studio of her own or accept Félice Norman's invitation to make her home with her.

  8. Cousin Félice was kind and delighted to pet and exhibit her pretty little kinswoman.

  9. Who would ever suppose there could be anything for which these little green plant-lice could serve as cows!

  10. The milk is meant for the little plant-lice to drink before they are old enough to hook their six legs on to stalks and leaves, and feed on sap.

  11. The next thing to remember is that body lice are opposed to cleanliness, and that the oftener you can wash yourself, the more you inconvenience them.

  12. In spite of all a soldier can do, lice are sure, sooner or later, to overtake him.

  13. Make sure that not only the live lice are killed but that the eggs as well are destroyed, say with the ash of a lighted cigarette.

  14. Those which we shall notice are the species of A´phis, commonly known as Plant-lice and Green-fly, which are found too frequently upon unhealthy plants.

  15. This third Order of insects consists of the Lice of the Mammalia and birds.

  16. BIRD LICE AND BOOK LICE Bird lice are not lice!

  17. We often see woolly plant lice in the summer-time on different plants, and one species injures apple trees.

  18. THE LOUSE Yes, John, lice are bugs, and very mean bugs too.

  19. Yes, they are the little plant lice that seem at times to cover every growing thing.

  20. They do not hop like the jumping plant lice when they are disturbed.

  21. Besides the lice that live on human beings, there are species that infest animals.

  22. I'm the force which drives behind the human lice who crawl westward along a thousand roads.

  23. Enemies: Aphides or plant lice that suck the sap from the leaves in spring and early summer are the chief enemies of the tree.

  24. It is particularly useful for plant lice in the summer.

  25. Mr. Sea-Lion, if you will come here, I will pick the lice out of your head.

  26. Then Penaumbe pretended to pick the lice out of its head.

  27. One can have intercourse with men who smell badly, and who suffer, as almost all Ainos do, from lice and from a variety of disgusting skin-diseases.

  28. The sea-lion felt a little pain, but thought that it was owing to the lice being picked out.

  29. After the sea-lion had swum a short way, it put its paw up to its head, in order to see whether the lice had really all been taken off.

  30. The sea-lion was very glad to have the lice picked out of its head.

  31. Hence all the fleas and lice that exist at the present day.

  32. Then he pretended to pick the lice out of its head.

  33. Then he said: "All the lice are picked off.

  34. And the Lord said unto Moses, 'Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

  35. It often hangs lice a titmouse, with its back downwards.

  36. The destruction of these eggs of plant lice is probably the most important service which the chickadee renders during its winter residence.

  37. Vegetation of various sorts made up a little less than a quarter of the food; but two thirds of this consisted of buds and bud scales that were accidentally introduced along with plant-lice eggs.

  38. Why, sometimes in a single day I find and eat almost five hundred eggs of those little green plant lice that do so much damage in the spring and summer.

  39. Those eggs would stay there all winter and in the spring hatch out into lice and worms if it were not for me.

  40. The punctures of the lice appear to poison some plants, producing warts or swellings, which are sometimes solid, sometimes hollow, containing within them a swarm of lice, descendants of a single individual.

  41. It causes the leaves to present a blistered appearance above; the lice are found on the under side; the wingless are pale yellow, the others have glossy wings, mostly black, with abdomen light green.

  42. When these eggs hatch, the brood consists wholly of females, which are wingless, and do not lay eggs, but are viviparous and produce from fifteen to twenty young lice in the course of a day.

  43. A medium-sized worm will consume a hundred lice in an hour.

  44. No sooner was I wrapped about with this good hemp than a genial warmth passed through me, my ulcers dried up, and the lice all perished suddenly with a terrible noise.

  45. But beneath the cloak the man was naked, and on his breast were four great abscesses, which formed together a single wide sore, and from this came the stench which filled the smithy, and the clouds of lice which swarmed round about.

  46. Ah, 'tis a most pitiful sight to see so great a king as you consumed by these lice and eaten up with these abscesses.

  47. Along with the itch are often found parasites of the head, or lice (pediculi).

  48. And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

  49. And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

  50. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

  51. Lice often cover the body of the dog, and especially crowd upon its head around the eyes and lips.

  52. Blattella vaga has shown some tendency to eat plant lice (Flock, 1941a).


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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