louse

Initially, we can’t wait for Iacono’s louse to get eaten but we come to treasure his comic relief, particularly when Xavier wanders off to relieve himself next to a nest of velociraptors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

A genetic analysis based on louse DNA revealed the existence of two distinct clusters of lice that rarely interbred.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023

Along our evolutionary journey from monkey-like primates to bipedal apes to big-brained humans, we have had the company of an extraordinarily loyal companion: Pediculus humanus, otherwise known as the human louse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

“We can see the louse DNA reflected in our own history.”

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

You’ll always win, but it will make you feel like a louse.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

They picked them up from school, held the flashlight while I checked for lice, assisted them with math homework and attended their school performances.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

Blood-sucking lice, breeding in the seams of clothing, spread from one man to the next.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

In layman's terms, it's a hotel for bugs, the smallest of the small—wood louses, millipedes, and anything else that could find its way in.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

Maybe all her friends are a bunch of louses and she should cut her losses and not invite them to the wedding.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013

How long can it be before she’s emotionally manipulated, professionally undermined, romanced by louses and ruined for life?

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2012

"It shows his mind's troubled, for he usually louses at six."

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

No 404 notice, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and especially, no Wordle.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

But she adds with pride: "Nobody ever got loused up in the Venice."

From Time Magazine Archive

Airline schedules are loused up, somebody is shouting at somebody else who can't help the situation, a lot of money has been lost, and about two dozen people are caught up in a cybernetic tangle.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I should have given him a court-martial after he loused up that Ferrara mission and went around twice.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“I’m lousing up my moon picture,” Messuri said.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

“A couple of generations after I’m dead and gone,” he likes to say, “the Ph.D.’s will start lousing through my work. Just imagine their surprise. ‘

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

Silver, who is called only Silver, perhaps because no one respects him enough to use his full name, has gone through life lousing things up.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012

Does she think he regrets lousing up their marriage?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010

But this whole thing is lousing up our entire space program.

From Psichopath by Randall Garrett