Sentence examples for cockroach off from inspiring English sources

In the tradition of the best hit men, the waiter coolly flicked the cockroach off the glass with his order pad, stepped on it and kicked the tiny corpse out the door.

The New Yorker, November 12 , 1927P. 17 Cockroach, frightened off by the Ritz doorman retires to the Biltmore.

"If you cut cockroaches' heads off, they still walk around for a long time, functioning O.K., except that they don't have any way to eat," Amato observed.

How I Spent my Tampa Vacation.

Management, he says, has responded by sending a maintenance worker to knock cockroaches off the hallway wall, vacuum them up and then wash the walls with soap and water, a treatment that Mr. Arkin calls "grossly and negligently" insufficient.

A Fulbright scholar and 20-year police veteran, he did not tell the street stories that roll naturally off his tongue -- the one about the time he kicked cockroaches off his shoes all night long as he guarded a decomposing corpse -- but of the value of his education.

Twenty years ago, would-be rock stars like Mötley Crüe, Van Halen and the Red Hot Chili Peppers lived in shacks in the then-affordable Hollywood Hills, where they fended off cockroaches with Aqua Net hairspray -- when they weren't fending off angry landlords.

Without humans to provide food and warmth, rats and cockroaches would die off.

Rats crawl over your feet as flying cockroaches bat off your head.

Experts say this could be because people with lower incomes might be exposed to dirtier air and to agents like dust mites and cockroaches that could set off asthma attacks.

So I kept the sheet off, but having the cockroaches crawling on me gave me a nervous breakdown.