How to Use maggot in a Sentence

maggot

noun
  • The rotten meat was infested with maggots.
  • There were swarms of bugs and maggots.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • There were 16 live maggots on the floor of the kitchen.
    — Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • When the boy’s dressings are changed, maggots fall to the floor.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Seeing maggots around or in open sores.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Basil tends to repel flies and maggots, and marigolds do as well.
    — Haniya Rae, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
  • To maggots, this dead tissue is food.
    — Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 17 May 2026
  • Presence of fly maggots in wounds.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Citrus juices are allowed five fly eggs or one maggot per cup.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The maggots then become a source of food for a range of creatures.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Do not attempt to remove the maggots from your pet at home.
    — Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Those eggs hatch maggots that burrow and eat live tissue.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Through the ice, a tiny tungsten jig tipped with maggots is the ticket.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Then, eggs hatch maggots that burrow and eat live tissue.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The eggs hatch and become larvae, or maggots.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Wounds can grow and deepen as more maggots hatch and feed on living tissue.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 11 June 2026
  • His body is very dead, and a lot of it is sitting inside a maggot's belly.
    — refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
  • The larvae are thin maggots, with a shiny black head and long, whitish-to-clear, legless body.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Most flies start as larvae or maggots that feed on dead carcasses.
    — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Her leg was barely still attached and the wound had maggots inside.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The man also had maggots that were eating at his wounds, police wrote.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Those infected may feel or see maggots moving in the wound.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Claire sends Bree out to hunt for maggots and sits at Jamie’s bedside.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • These go after green fruit still on the tree, and the maggots get bigger inside the fruit.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Remo, a Maltese, had maggots in its fur, ears and eyes when it was found.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Bloody Mary could contain up to four maggots and 20 or more fruit fly eggs.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • His fur was singed and bitten, his arm broken, and his mouth crawling with maggots.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Medicinal maggots in a petri dish.
    — Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 17 May 2026
  • Trash juice and maggots would fall down their backs, covering their clothes and filling their shoes.
    — Jenny Jarvie, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • That may require surgery if the maggots are deeply embedded.
    — Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2026

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