bedbug

Example Sentences

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For one thing, the hotel’s reputation had plummeted into its subbasement, with mocking public complaints about peeling wallpaper, worn furniture and bedbugs.

From Seattle Times

The young worker had landed what sounded like a fun job at a small employer in the business of training detection dogs to sniff out drugs, bombs, bedbugs and the like.

From Washington Post

One worker told me he buys cheap clothes to sleep in and throws them away because he’s scared of bringing bedbugs home to his family.

From New York Times

The walls along the street are littered with posters, most written in Bengali, offering rooms, advertisements from job seekers and several for ointments to treat bedbug bites.

From Seattle Times

They were used to cramming into motel rooms infested with bedbugs and rodents, working through bone-cold blizzards and punishing summer heat.

From New York Times