How to Use earthworm in a Sentence

earthworm

noun
  • And also, earthworms love to come up and eat them.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In the soil in his palm, an earthworm wriggled.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The month when earthworms start to appear.
    — Dave Aguilera, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The presence of robins in your yard mean there are lots of earthworms around.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2019
  • Some, like robins, switch from earthworms and insects to fruits and berries.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • And earthworms are the principal food of robins in the spring.
    — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
  • Children were able to make bird feeders and dig for earthworms.
    — Julie Cornell, Houston Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
  • There’s an earthworm farm and thus a constant supply of fresh dirt.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • There are rats that feed on seeds, rats that feed on fruits, rats that feed on earthworms, rats that feed on leaves.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Critters that do eat coffee grounds are earthworms.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Jim is an earthworm in a universe where Earth is nothing more than a myth.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
  • These animals are miniature cousins of earthworms and can spend their whole life in soil.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The snake was barely bigger than an earthworm, curled in the palm of someone’s hand.
    — Ellen O'Connell Whittet, Allure, 11 July 2017
  • Southern tribes called this the worm moon after the earthworm casts that appeared as the ground thawed.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Dave weighs nearly an ounce, almost twice as heavy as any other wild earthworm ever seen.
    — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
  • Then, an earthworm might come along and eat one of the smaller chunks and break it down even more in its digestive tract.
    — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • There’s no easier bait to harvest than earthworms.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Please note that there doesn’t appear to be any sources of Oregon native earthworms.
    — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The rows of fangs help the animals capture prey, such as earthworms, which are then swallowed whole.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • An observant reader noticed a big, fat earthworm in the snow.
    — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • An adventure with worms, good fat juicy old-time earthworms, moist and sexy and leaving their mucus on you.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Then there are lessons from the earthworm investment craze of the 1970s.
    — Fortune, 29 Jan. 2018
  • An ominous shot of an earthworm feasting on a large pile of fresh horse manure suggests trouble ahead.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
  • Some of the animals are smaller than an earthworm, while others are longer than a pickup truck.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The new earthworms coming in are from all over Asia, and there are a number of different species.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Like the real, live earthworms in her mouth on the cover art, the songs writhe and slide like invertebrates.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Originally, it was believed to refer to the time of year when earthworms emerge, as snow melts and soil warms.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The cubs didn’t succeed at snagging a plant, but moments later one of them found an earthworm and gobbled it down.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
  • For example, earthworms have been studied long enough in Europe that most of the species are known.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The Worm Moon marks the time when the earth softens enough for earthworm casts to start appearing.
    — Cheryl Vari, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018

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