Sentence examples for maggots when from inspiring English sources

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I, for one, didn't need to know that Moran sometimes finds "a whole bed of writhing maggots" when she removes a layer of dirt over a grave.

He calls them rude names, and when they improve tells them they have progressed: "Now you are maggots". When he tells a bedtime story to the 6-year-old, Tiger (Orlando Brown), it is a combat verison of "The Little Engine That Could". The boys retaliate by trying to slip him a laxative mixed into a breakfast cupcake.

+ Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath and wrote her first book, about a family called The Maggots, when she was nine.

On 27 June 1905, Potemkin was at gunnery practice near Tendra Island off the Ukrainian coast when many enlisted men refused to eat the borscht made from rotten meat partially infested with maggots when it was delivered to the warship by the Potemkins escort, the torpedo boat (No. 627).

Recently, a low molecular weight insect peptide was found mainly responsible for the antimicrobial activity of the maggots, when exposed to an infectious environment of a wound.

However, the protein concentration was 30 ± 2% lower for secretions alone than for excretions/secretions pools, meaning that we used the products of more maggots when testing secretions alone.

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The police officers pushed past her, stepping over maggots, and, when they went to the second floor, heard a man, later identified as Mr. Murphy, call out from behind a closed bedroom door.

Their lizard-beings, or "minions," are especially cute: pale little monsters that skitter around, swivel their heads agilely, bite people, and split up into lots of wiggling little maggot beings when you stomp them.

As for Fareed Zakaria, who was forced to answer "slug-maggot" dichotomies, when he was running for president of the Yale Political Union, he is an intellectual with a heart, an unusual combination, and we need more people like him in government and the media.

I recall a time when maggots were regarded as anything but acceptable.

Importantly, maggots can indicate when flies laid their eggs on the corpse and therefore the point at which the victim was "definitely dead", says McDermid.

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