Sentence examples for maggot like from inspiring English sources

"Maggot," like all Mr. Muldoon's work, is packed with gnarled and unfamiliar terms: quidnunc, spalpeen, tormentil, mullein.

"Disco was born, maggot like, from the rotten remains of the Big Apple", wrote Peter Shapiro in "Turn the Beat Around" a history of the genre.The release it gave was different though.

The documentary follows James through his days at St. Leonard's, and allows listeners to hear from the priest who runs the halfway house and from James's caseworker, also a former convict, who tells his charge, "Whatever could happen to a maggot like me could happen to a butterfly like you if you just try".

Each spring, they emerge as maggot-like larvae from eggs laid last year.

Larvae, which vary considerably in shape, are classified in five forms: eruciform (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grublike), campodeiform (elongated, flattened, and active), elateriform (wireworm-like), and vermiform (maggot-like).

David Pritchard applied a dressing to his arm that was crawling with maggot-like hookworm larvae, and left it on for several days.

Pollen provides the protein-rich food they require and, unusually in the insect world, bees feed on pollen and nectar throughout their lives; adult females gather food for their offspring so their maggot-like larvae don't need to move at all.

The same is true for many beetles, who abandon their maggot-like larval offspring shortly after laying their eggs.

Rice, maggot-like.

Lips made of swarming, maggot-like larvae frame stubbed-out cigarette teeth.

This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grub-like), campodeiform (elongated, flattened and active), elateriform (wireworm-like) or vermiform (maggot-like).