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More sentences with flea

• If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear.From the entry flea in one's ear
• I had to deflea our cat with a flea comb, even though it wears a flea collar.From the entry deflea
• Lice, fleas, ticks, and mites are widely spread parasites.From the entry parasite
• All the remnants were sold in the flea market.From the entry remnant
• Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.From the entry unaided
• Although things are sold cheaper at the flea market, it's always a good idea to check whether the item is stolen.From the entry flea market
• The area was crawling with all sorts of vermin: fleas, lice, mice, and rats to name a few. Thus, we felt as if vermin were crawling over us.From the entry vermin
• The European rabbit flea (Spilopsyllus cuniculi Dale) confines itself, absolutely, to the European rabbit.2012, Mandy Keifetz, “Perfect”, in Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief, Kalamazoo, Mich.: New Issues Poetry & Prose, →ISBN, pages 134–135. From the entry bloodful
• She had a flea in her fur which was making her twitch.2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry scritch
• And then there’s the entertainment value to be found at the fleas.1996, Suzy Adams Dixon, Paula L. Stahel, “Shopping”, in The Insiders’ Guide to Tampa Bay, 2nd edition, Bradenton, Fla.: Bradenton Herald…. From the entry tank-topped
• I stayed in this hotel last year, I hated it, it's a flea bag.1993, Bill Murray, Groundhog Day. From the entry flea bag
• "I came away with two fleas in each ear," Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later.1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels. From the entry flea in one's ear
• "Usually those jobs have so many applicants that they don't pay enough to feed a flea.”1959, Frank Gill Slaughter, Trio: Three Complete Novels, page 44. From the entry nice work if you can get it
• It's not a flea bag or one of those two hour hotels with the girls coming and going.2010, Isaac Hallenberg, The Dwarf's Doubloons, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry flea bag
• "Minus the fleas!" and he started changing.2007, Alice J. Capen, The Secret Adventures of John, Paul, George and Ringo. From the entry catself
• The term flea pit was not justified as the cinema turned out to be clean and well maintained.2004, Keith Spratley, Provincial Eye: The Short Stories. From the entry flea pit
• Deleuze and Guattari are right in miracling fleas into the bestiary, but it is already rich enough to do without them.1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 117. From the entry miracle
• He is more worried than I like to see him by his small enemies – the fleas of Farringford- Woodford.1988, Henry Graham Dakyns, Audrey Tennyson, Lady Audrey Georgina Florence Boyle Tennyson, Letters to a Tutor, page 24. From the entry overwell
• Tungid fleas, one of which is commonly known as the sand flea, can cause such damage to a person.1982, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Utah Mosquito Abatement Association, Volume 34, Parts 1981-1996, page 33. From the entry tungid
• He began to see and hear fleas in the curtains.1965, Roger Vailland, A Young Trout, page 203. From the entry Maxiton
• These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.2015, A.D. Barber, “Vernacular names of woodlice with particular reference to Devonshire”, in Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod…. From the entry carpenter
• Rich’s cotton dhurrie home for a wash and spent half an hour scrubbing a flea market coffee table with Murphy Oil Soap.2009 March 12, Julie Scelfo, “The $300 Makeover: West Village Studio”, in New York Times. From the entry dhurrie
• Van Leeuwenhoek expanded his search for these unseeably small creatures and found them everywhere: on human eyelashes, on fleas, in dust, and on skin.2007, Kendall Haven, 100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time. From the entry unseeably
• The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise.2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 174. From the entry siphonapteran
• The female chigoe flea burrows into the skin, often under the toenails or between the toes, where she sucks blood and lays her eggs.2002, Patrick R. Murray, chapter I, in Medical Microbiology, page 778. From the entry chigoe flea
• In one version of the legend, the move was owing to an intolerable infestation by chigoe fleas in the Pokolum area (cf.1999, Luisa Maffi, “Domesticated Land, Warm and Cold: Linguistic and Historical Evidence on Tenejapa Tzeltal Maya Ethnoecology”, in Ted L.…. From the entry chigoe flea
• The Regal is no longer there, but, when I was eight, nine, and ten it was a flea pit down beside the harbor.1970, Colm Luibhéid, All the Green Gold: an Irish boyhood. From the entry flea pit
• When in this sad hangtail mood, even the healthy bites of aggressive fleas could not distract him, so deeply was he immersed in despondency.1969, Joe Johnson, Courtin', Sportin', and Non-supportin', page 89. From the entry hangtail
• Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 203. From the entry clankingly
• No mites, no fleas, nothing," said Larry, "But some of the poor Joanies in the main room were scratching their necks like there was a company louse picnic.2017, Jeffrey A[lan] Lockwood, Murder on the Fly, Fayetteville, A.R.: Pen-L Publishing, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry joanie
• When we ripped up all the carpet and lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house.2002 October 30, Augie, “Frontline or Advantage for fleas?”, in aus.pets (Usenet). From the entry lino
• Loss of bristles, or reduction in their size, is characteristic of other ectoparasites with a burrowing or semisedentary habit, as exemplified by the tungid and hectopsyllid fleas.1955, Robert Traub, Mary Lou Morrow, A revision of the chiggers of the subgenus Gahrliepia (Acarina: Trombiculidae), page 49. From the entry hectopsyllid
• The doctor was issuing my non-vermin certificate, a certificate declaring me free of lice and fleas, and at that moment the first flea fell upon me.1920 November 6, Alfons Goldschmidt, “Moscow in 1920”, in Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, volume…. From the entry liceless
• For example, in the case of bubonic plague, bounties were paid to rat-catchers, who were required to kill the fleas on dead rats by dropping the rats into boiling water.2014, Vivian Lin, James Smith, Sally Fawkes, with Priscilla Robinson and Sandy Gifford, “Health in Australia Today: Health Status, the…. From the entry bounty

Meaning of flea

1. noun A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
2. noun A thing of no significance.
3. verb To remove fleas from (an animal).

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Questions about flea in a sentence

How do you use flea in a sentence?

Flea is used as a noun and verb. For example: “If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear.”

What is a short sentence with flea?

“"Minus the fleas!" and he started changing.”

What does flea mean?

Flea means a small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.