housefly
IPA: hˈaʊsfɫaɪ
noun
- Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
- The common housefly, Musca domestica, that frequents most homes and spreads some diseases.
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Examples of "housefly" in Sentences
- We need one like that of the housefly.
- The housefly is the typical sponging insect.
- Is the housefly really much of a disease threat
- Humans share a common ancestry with the housefly.
- Thank you for shooing that housefly out the window
- But you must still exclude species such as the housefly, right
- Or is a housefly a range of species that simply live around humans
- Like the others, she also had the flea, housefly, seagull, and cockroach.
- They manage to catch a ride on a housefly and they fly outside into the garden.
- The housefly is the Ferrari of the insect world and can change course in as little as 30 thousandths of a second.
- Creepy animals are only too plentiful, the most objectionable at present is the common housefly which is a perfect plague.
- This preserved housefly is sporting a pair of two-millimeter-wide eyeglasses, engineered with ultra-precise fast-pulse laser technology.
- Generally speaking the housefly is very susceptible to DDT; unfortunately some fairly resistant species of fly have lately been observed.
- Well the North Koreans got two out of three correct, but they forgot to add that she is a windbag who is about as threatening as a housefly.
- One memory that returned with the persistence of a housefly was my recollection of the promise I had made to Grandmere Catherine should anything bad happen to her.
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