How to Use deer tick in a Sentence

deer tick

noun
  • Both types are spread by deer ticks.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 4 June 2026
  • They're commonly called a deer tick.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Of those, the deer tick is the one that often bites and infects humans.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The larger wood ticks are easier to spot than the smaller deer ticks.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Lyme disease is spread by deer ticks — tiny, black-brown arachnids about the size of a sesame seed.
    — Dr. Andrew Bernstein, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In terms of ticks, deer ticks are the biggest threat throughout the US.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • In addition, more people may live near deer ticks than compared to a few decades ago.
    — Seth Roeser, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Some ticks, like the deer tick, are active year-round, and dog ticks come out during spring and summer.
    — Elle Meyers, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Also, the deer tick is quite tiny, a mere speck, and easily overlooked.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
  • The second most common tick is the lone star tick, also known as the seed tick, turkey tick or deer tick.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2018
  • It is most commonly carried by the black-legged or deer tick and can infest humans and pets.
    — Kaleb A. Brown, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2020
  • For example, in the unfed or nymph stage, female deer ticks can be as small as poppy seed.
    — Kayla Hui, Mph, Verywell Health, 28 Dec. 2023
  • This disease is transmitted mainly by deer ticks.
    — Dr. Andrew Bernstein, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • However, the lone star tick has a different shape than the dog tick and is much larger than the deer tick.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
  • The film was a country-house nightmare about contracting disease from deer ticks.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Adult deer ticks, for example, are about 1/10th of an inch when they’re not engorged.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 30 May 2025
  • But lacking anything better, a pamphlet about deer ticks can keep me occupied quite some while.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Warmer weather give nasty little vectors like the deer ticks that carry the disease a longer time period to spread it.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Prater begrudgingly saw an optometrist who broke the news — a deer tick had taken up residence in his cornea.
    — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 16 July 2019
  • Lyme disease is transmitted from deer ticks, which are very small ticks whose numbers continue to rise in our area.
    — Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • In the Northeast, the deer tick is best known as the carrier of Lyme disease.
    — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Babesiosis is usually spread by black-legged or deer ticks—particularly young ticks in the nymph stage.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The report found that just shy of 39% of deer ticks tested positive for Lyme.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2020
  • An unlucky encounter with a deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) could leave you with Lyme disease.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2025
  • So researchers are testing photosensitive eyes that weigh less than 2 milligrams and are about the size of a deer tick.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
  • The coronavirus, like deer ticks (now found as far north as the Arctic), may prove to be one of many new invisible threats.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • The reasoning for the cull was to prevent the spread of Lyme disease, which can be caused by bacteria in deer ticks.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The infection — which can cause a bull’s-eye rash — is spread by the black-legged deer tick and caused by Borrelia bacteria.
    — Shreya Srinivasan, NBC news, 17 July 2025
  • Powassan virus disease is spread by three types of ticks, including the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 25 July 2019
  • That disease is the Powassan virus, which is transmitted by deer ticks just like Lyme disease.
    — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 2 May 2017

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