Sentence examples for the louse from inspiring English sources

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the louse

noun

A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera.

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That woman is the louse of this world.

"The louse that lives on my head," he called him.

The louse migrated to the head of ancestral humans as their body hair thinned and receded.

Regardless of how often one changed his drawers, the louse ruled.

Epidemic relapsing fever, caused by spirochetes, is transmitted by the louse Pediculus.

The stylets are retracted into the head when the louse is not feeding.

The louse flies Lipoptena depressa and Neolipoptena ferrisi are found on deer.

"The louse phylogeny adds one more piece of data to this puzzle.

As the louse sucks the person's blood, rickettsiae pass into the insect's gut, where they invade the intestinal cells.

The louse is infected by feeding with its powerful sucking mouth on a person who has the disease.

Small wonder Nick soon finds himself derided as "the most hated man in America": Affleck is never better than when he is playing the louse.

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