Example Sentences

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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

These include ensuring legal protections for endangered louses and nematodes, building parasitism into the K-12 curriculum, and getting the public not just mildly curious but “enthusiastic” about parasites.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020

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

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

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