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

Others do not, viewing the bots as sidewalk lice that create hazards and take jobs from humans.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Monkeys that soaked in the warm water had different patterns of lice on their bodies and differences in certain gut bacteria.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

One section demonstrates how it could be used to generate a letter about a head lice outbreak, for example.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025

“What about beetles? Wood lice? Something like that?”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams