Sentence examples for cockroach as from inspiring English sources

Chris jokes about how rich the Cosbys seemed to be yet how they actually knew someone named "Cockroach", as well as some edgier material on whether or kids with AIDS should attend school.

But he was a moderate and to Hutu extremists as much of 'a cockroach' as a Tutsi.

"I always urge people not to think of the cockroach as if it were a monolithic objectionable insect," he said.

Taunted with the cruel nickname the 'white cockroach' as a child, the author Jean Rhys grew up on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

We are disgusted by lots of things that are not really dangerous, such as a sterilized cockroach, as studies have found.

The prose bespeaks a kind of observational rapture that offers the smell of Tokyo streets or even the movements of a cockroach as tiny, cherishable shards.

On his father's advice, and believing it would be impossible to make a living as an author (even the Nobel prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz had a job), he trained as a dentist, dissecting cockroaches as well as studying teeth as part of a curriculum designed by the British.

He does not say where he learned the dextrous hand movements that allow him to produce from the torsos of his patients an assortment of crabs, frogs, bats and cockroaches as well as screws, hinges, seashells, chicken bones, twigs, nails -- most anything a person might find as he walks along the road.

Kangura requested that all Hutu be vigilant against the Tutsi, who Kangura called Inyenzi (cockroaches), as well as those considered accomplices.

Early man probably spread cockroaches as he moved about seeking food.

Mosquitoes cause encephalitis; deer ticks bring bull's-eyes and Lyme disease; and we regard cockroaches as unclean.