lice

Example Sentences

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While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

These include scabies – caused by mites, lice and bed bugs.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

W. H. Auden once wrote of a miserable Roman soldier guarding a cold, rain-soaked wall in northern Europe, mentioning "lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose."

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

She sees many children in her class who she thinks would probably be better off at home: “Kids with a lot of green and yellow mucus. We’ve had kids with active lice in school.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

The lice and good health both departed because of the fever.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos