roach

Example Sentences

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In academia, the strategy of trapping customers is sometimes called the “roach motel,” she explained, a reference to a popular television ad from the late 1970s for a cockroach trap.

From Los Angeles Times

Sometimes he woke up with roaches all over his bed.

From Literature

“I...I wouldn’t call it that,” said Boaz uneasily, trying not to look too alarmed as he watched a roach emerge from one of the mugs.

From Literature

Go too deep into that realm, O’Malley said, and it becomes a “roach trap” from which “you never feel like there’s an exit strategy.”

From Salon

Inmates are housed in unsafe, dirty facilities infested with roaches and rats, Bonta said in a news conference Monday, and lack basic access to clean water and edible food.

From Los Angeles Times