How to Use pheromone in a Sentence

pheromone

noun
  • Now pheromone maxxing joins the list.
    — Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Use pheromone traps for the adult moths.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Set out pheromone traps for adult moths.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Set out pheromone traps for the adult moths.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Spiked eggnog and pheromones were in the air.
    — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 11 June 2026
  • What is pheromone perfume and what is in it?
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026
  • Cats have scent glands that release pheromones all over their body.
    — Meghan Holmes, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The world of pheromone cologne has taken off in the last two years.
    — Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Why do people think pheromone perfume works?
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026
  • Like their towels, their shampoo, maybe even their pheromones.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There’s likely some sort of pheromone involved.
    — Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • Hang traps to attract the moths with pheromones and catch them using sticky glue.
    — Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Hang traps to attract the moths with pheromones and catch them using sticky glue.
    — Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
  • And to make sure males get that message, females emit a pheromone that turns them off.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016
  • Place pheromone traps in apple trees to detect presence of codling moth.
    — oregonlive, 1 May 2022
  • Is pheromone perfume worth buying?
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026
  • Snakes will follow pheromone trails laid down by other snakes leading to the den.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
  • It's designed to release pheromones to help your dog relax.
    — Jessica Moore, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • In nature, this might be a pheromone trail, a bird’s warning call, or the flick of a fish’s fin.
    — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • During this process, have your friend purchase a feline pheromone plug-in for the home.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • What’s that porky-buttery-pecan-rich pheromone among the cabbage and salsa?
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • Even better, more ants will follow pheromones back to the trap, speeding along the process.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2017
  • And are there more direct ways to control your personal brand of pheromone?
    — Clay Skipper, GQ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Or luring lampreys into traps with pheromones.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Everyone got to smell the comb, which takes on the waffle smell because of pheromones.
    — Jason Nark, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Some worms can produce pheromones that can attract other worms toward them.
    — Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The pheromones lured boll weevils into traps where they could be sprayed with pesticides.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • Place pheromone traps around your closet to capture any lingering moths.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, researchers have not come to a consensus on whether humans even have pheromones.
    — Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The more beetles that came, the stronger the pheromone’s pull, until a forest was destroyed.
    — Daniel McGlynn, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2012

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