How to Use centipede in a Sentence

centipede

noun
  • These centipedes are a b**** lol.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The cold will also slow or cease the growth of centipede and bahia lawns too.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Think of it like a centipede sprouting a pair of legs from each segment.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
  • At one point, a hand is shown touching the screen, as the centipede moves around behind it.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Bermuda is easier and faster to grow a lawn from seeds than centipede.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Countless dirt roads scratch outward from the highway like the legs of a centipede.
    — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
  • By far, that list of insects combined is way creepier than any house centipede!
    — Katina Beniaris, Country Living, 25 May 2017
  • October is the last feeding for bahia, centipede and zoysia lawns this year.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Sheehy said that both the diminutive snake and the centipede are venomous.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Among a dozen different brooches she's been seen wearing, there's been a fox, a frog and a centipede.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Scientists hadn’t been sure whether to place it among the millipedes or the centipedes.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • When their antennae were covered with foil, the centipedes were much less likely to flee from bright light.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Some kind of carpet beetle, with the odd centipede joining the parade.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • That in turn is what makes blood vessels in the centipede's target spasm, sometimes strongly enough to cause death.
    — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The centipede the Redditor found crawling in her bed.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This one was 8 inches long, and the centipede measured 3 inches.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Most centipede bites happen when someone slips their foot into a shoe with a centipede hiding in the toe box.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2024
  • But centipedes have all their body segments already in place at birth, according to the study authors.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Research has shown that centipedes may also be able to detect light through their antennae.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Argady adds crickets, ground beetles, centipedes, and termites to the list.
    — Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 25 June 2026
  • Stranger still is that this rare species of snake, died with a centipede trapped inside its throat — forever stuck in a fierce battle.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Most toddlers don’t spend their days picking up sticks and chasing centipedes in the forest with their teacher.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2019
  • His past expeditions have found lots of centipedes living in epiphytes called bird’s nest ferns.
    — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Understanding the ways spider and centipede toxin work could help health care.
    — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 11 June 2015
  • The clip shows what appears to be a centipede crawling around behind the digital screen of the toaster oven.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The two types of lawn grasses commonly established from seed are bermuda and centipede.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Tick off the number and species of each organism observed, such as centipedes, ground beetles, and spiders.
    — Julie Monahan, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2015
  • After being asked that question, suddenly the centipede starts tripping over its own legs.
    — Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Now is the time to apply a spring fertilizer application to all but zoysia and centipede lawns.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Other kids were debating whether an insect was a centipede, an earwig, or some other sort of beetle.
    — Conor Williams, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018

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