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How to use termite in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Termite means a white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea. Example: “The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.”

Examples of termite by meaning

nounA contemptible person.

  • This two faced termite has the nerve to talk.2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 31

More sentences with termite

  • The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.From the entry honeycomb
  • It is often difficult to determine the time required for a queen to become physogastric in termite colonies.2014, Y. Abe, Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology, page 337. From the entry physogastry
  • Gilchrist has a head that would have passed unnoticed Back o′Bourke where they played cricket using termite mounds as stumps.2002, Garrie Hutchinson, Gilly the Great: The Best Australian Sports Writing, 2002, page 13. From the entry back o' Bourke
  • In about one to three minutes, the termite collapses, paralyzed.1993, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers, page 124. From the entry berothid
  • It is also important to know that dryrot is a bigger problem in many areas that termite damage, and a termite inspection generally ignores dryrot.2015, H. Skip Thomsen, Affordable Paradise: The Secrets of an Affordable Life in Hawaii. From the entry dryrot
  • Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 39, in Earthly Powers, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 280. From the entry menhir
  • Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry refugium
  • When an opening is made in a termitarium, soldiers crowd into the breach, and either stop the invaders or fill the breach with their termite dead.2002, Frank N. Young, Jr.; Gene Kritsky, A Survey of Entomology, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry termitarium
  • The most voracious cable-muncher in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Australia is the termite, or white ant, which eats through both lead and polythene sheathings.1971 June 3, “Technology Review: Spoiling the termite′s dinner”, in New Scientist, page 573. From the entry white ant

Meaning of termite

  1. noun A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
  2. noun A contemptible person.
  3. verb Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it.

Full definition of termite

Questions about termite in a sentence

How do you use termite in a sentence?
Termite is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.”
What is a short sentence with termite?
“Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.”
What does termite mean?
Termite means a white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: termite (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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