How to Use tapeworm in a Sentence

tapeworm

noun
  • There are a few key signs that your pet may have contracted a tapeworm.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Also, talk to your vet about treating for tapeworms; pets with fleas are at risk.
    — Karen Asp, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
  • So far, the research team has isolated five tapeworm eggs from the muck.
    — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • So far, the research team has isolated five tapeworm eggs from the muck.
    — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • Both dogs got tapeworm—which was disgusting—and had to stay out in the yard till the pills went to work.
    — T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • What’s a tapeworm if not a reminder that our bodies are ecosystems, too?
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Sure enough, there was a tapeworm wrapped around a cardboard toilet paper tube.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Wrapped around it is, of course, this giant, long — what looks like a flat tapeworm, just sitting in there.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Bahn brought the tapeworm, wrapped around a cardboard toilet-paper roll, with him.
    — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Sked notes that there is a small risk that tapeworms pose to humans, too, though pet cases are more common.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The most common of these is Taenia solium, aka the pork tapeworm.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The other drug is niclosamide, used to treat tapeworms and other parasites.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The ghastly glow of a tapeworm lights up one image, the fuzz of mold emerges from a tomato in another.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Echinococcus worms, which are tiny tapeworms, can cause an illness called echinococcosis.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 2 Aug. 2018
  • The defense tactic has worked for the hagfish, an eel-like animal that looks like an oversized tapeworm.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Some of the cats had health issues, however; some were pregnant, others were skinny or had fleas and tapeworms.
    — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2019
  • One of them—a tapeworm Gardner fished out of a camas pocket gopher—turned out to be a species new to science.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Biologists usually refer to the head of a tapeworm by what name?
    — Brian Whitehead, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017
  • One canine coprolite contained the eggs of fish tapeworm, so the dog would have consumed raw freshwater fish at some point.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
  • Other riverside residents have suffered seizures caused by tapeworms three to six millimeters wide in the walls of their brains.
    — Preetika Rana, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But an operation to remove the lesion revealed a cyst full of tapeworm larvae.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The best way to kill a tapeworm is by properly cooking fish or freezing it for multiple days before eating it.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
  • Parasites also cannot reproduce without a host, but no one would say an animal such as a tapeworm is not alive.
    — Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Big Think, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Flea larvae eat tapeworm eggs, and as the flea matures, the parasite develops inside it.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Usually, someone has to swallow eggs found in the feces of a person who has an intestinal tapeworm to end up in such a state.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The kinds of intestinal worms that dogs can get are most commonly roundworm, hookworm, whipworm, and tapeworm.
    — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
  • By lengthening the life of the worker by years, the tapeworm improves the odds that a woodpecker will eventually show up.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • If your dog eats a flea that’s carrying a tapeworm larva, the tapeworm—a type of parasite—can transfer to their body and appear in your dog’s stool.
    — Shelby Deering, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Unpleasant as the idea of a tapeworm is, the good news is that tapeworms typically don’t cause serious symptoms.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024

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