How to Use weevil in a Sentence

weevil

noun
  • The root weevil larvae are white with a tan head, and C-shaped.
    — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The female weevil chews her way into the base of the plant to lay her eggs in spring.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The female weevil chews her way into the base of the plant to lay her eggs in spring.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The weevil’s young (grubs) eat the roots, turning them into a stinky, liquid mash.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The weevil’s young (grubs) eat the roots, turning them into a stinky, liquid pool.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
  • If the culprit is a weevil, go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief—and maybe even check the critter out.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 July 2022
  • Pea weevils can chew on foliage, especially along the edges of young leaves.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Salvinia weevils, like the plant, are from the tropics and are vulnerable to cold.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The male cones produce pollen, which is carried by insects (weevils) to the female cones.
    — Laura Cinti, Ars Technica, 16 June 2024
  • This is the Lingala term for the larvae of palm weevils, a type of beetle that lives in palm trees.
    — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Aphids, slugs, weevils, beetles, and grasshoppers can cause a lot of damage with their munching.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Keep in mind that this trap is not exclusive to root weevils and may trap beneficials as well.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
  • The holes are either from pecan weevils or hickory shuckworms.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Palm weevils are native to South America but go where the palms go.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Every year, weevils and moths lay eggs on or within acorns, which their larvae proceed to devour.
    — Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
  • Like us, ancient people wanted fleas out of their homes, lice off their bodies, and weevils out of their grain supplies.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The ending, ‘Zyzzyva’, is a paean to a genus of tropical weevil.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
  • In the beginning, crop treatments for weevils took place every 10 days.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al.com, 14 July 2019
  • And fitting the honor, Daisya obriani is a lesser weevil.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
  • More than 20 weevils were also found inside the masa container.
    — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 21 May 2018
  • If startled, a New Zealand giraffe weevil will hurl itself from a tree.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Ann is relatively pest resistant but can have problems with scale, weevils, thrips, and snails.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
  • The album, 'Arthur Buck,' approaches ear weevil stages at about the fourth listen.
    — Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2019
  • State park fees will be waived for those participating in the weevil-distribution event.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 9 June 2017
  • That’s because Nevis’s mango trees, for all their wonders, can be affected by the mango seed weevil.
    — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 28 July 2019
  • Planting sunflowers alongside companion plants can help shield them from pests like beetles, aphids, and weevils.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
  • That weevil lived alongside the dinosaurs; its death may even have occurred in the presence of brachiosaurus, which once ambled around the same forestland.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • By the way, the worm actually a weevil larva in the bottle was always more of a gimmick than a tradition.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The nematodes have even been used to save Florida oranges from demise at the hungry mandibles of the citrus root weevil.
    — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017
  • People in north Gaza thus started to rush to their relatives’ and friends’ homes searching for a grain of flour, even if it was filled with weevils.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025

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