Sentence examples for long cockroach from inspiring English sources

A doctor had to pull a 2cm long cockroach from a man's ear after the insect crawled inside while he slept.

If you keep the hidden wrappers in your bed too long, cockroaches or ants will be in your room and your parents might get suspicious.

One researcher compares it to discovering a foot-long cockroach.

I have a three-foot-long cockroach on the dog crate.

The hotel reserved by my parents' friends featured army cots instead of beds and a half-foot-long cockroach evolved enough to wave what looked like a fist at us.

Wednesday morning, in a corridor of Cooper Union's trendiest academic building, a three-inch-long cockroach — thin wires protruding from where antennas normally would, miniature circuit board attached squarely to its head — lay surrounded by teenagers.

Listicle after listicle detailed inch-long cockroaches, centipedes, June bugs, and other skittering critters setting up camp in unsuspecting folk's orifices.

Even relatively large prey, such as 3-to-4-cm-long cockroaches and locusts, were immediately paralyzed though they were stung successively several times.

During observations conducted both in the field and in the laboratory, we noted that when capturing relatively large prey, such as 3.5-cm-long locusts or 4-cm-long cockroaches (see Table 1), the workers first cut them into two pieces, always retrieved the anterior part, and then returned to the site of capture to retrieve the distal part of the prey.

Because it is small (about 12 mm [less than 0.5 inch] long), this cockroach often is carried into homes in grocery bags and boxes; it has spread throughout the world by ship.

Hydramethylnon has low toxicity and low vapor pressure and has been shown previously to be effective for long-term cockroach control (Appel 1992).