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bedbug
noun as in insect
Example Sentences
This mattress protector ensures that bedbugs can’t make their home inside your home, giving you peace of mind as you sleep.
Their new landlords don’t want bedbugs or cockroaches to hitch a ride on their possessions.
They have no cockroaches, no bedbugs, no large mice that are chasing you.
You should be able to cure most issues, other than termites and bedbugs, without hiring a service.
One with no risk of running out of food, getting into trouble at port, or—yuck—hosting an infestation of bedbugs.
In fact, an Indian and a louse are natural allies—boon companions—and are as inseparable as the boarding-house bed and the bedbug.
The bedbug has not been seen in a year in Porto Rico, though there is no reason why it should not be here.
The bedbug is more of a tradition than a fact, and many of those who shudder at mention of him have never seen one of his kind.
Ants, especially the white ant, pay frequent visits to the house, but the worst scourge of all is the ravenous bedbug.
In Kansas, the bedbug is improperly called the chintz-bug, and is believed to dwell under the bark of the cotton-wood tree.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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