Mite in a sentence as a noun

The word "mite" has a negative connotation for some people.

Bacteria can get in the same way sperm do, mites are not able to swim through the fluid.

For example, I am allergic to dust mites.

But then got a mite infestation and had to release the little fellas.

The only way I can put my mind at ease is to realize that when I die I'll be no more human than dolphin, dust mite, seashell, moon rock, or electron.

Depending on what a person is allergic to, DE-humidifying may be the way to go. Dust mite allergies, for example, will be worse for a person who lives in a humid room.

The jelly works the same trigger, except requires the bees normally clean themselves, spreading the jelly all over themselves, which makes the mites unable to stick.

Bayer also manufactures anti-mite products, which has led some critics to point out that Bayer would profit mightily from mites being the cause of colony collapse.

> Dan Fergus ... discovered that mite DNA could be sequenced from face scrapings regardless of whether a mite could be found under the microscopeReminds me of the use of DNA sequencing to detect giant salamanders using DNA collected from stream water.

Let him take a mite which in its minute body presents him with parts incomparably more minute; limbs with their joints, veins in the limbs, blood in the veins, humours in the blood, drops in the humours, vapours in the drops; let him, again dividing these last, exhaust his power of thought; let the last point at which he arrives be that of which we speak, and he will perhaps think that here is the extremest diminutive in nature.

Let him therein see an infinity of universes of which each has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each earth animals, and at the last the mites, in which he will come upon all that was in the first, and still find in these others the same without end and without cessation; let him lose himself in wonders as astonishing in their minuteness as the others in their immensity; for who will not be amazed at seeing that our body, which before was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, a whole, in regard to the nothingness to which we cannot attain.

Mite definitions

noun

a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

See also: touch hint tinge pinch speck soupcon

noun

any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods