Horsefly used in a sentence

Horsefly in a sentence as a noun

Back in the day, I was living next to a guy who had horses and got bitten by a horsefly.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horsefly""That depends on how long we have to chase you around for"

Did some research furiously about the whole horsefly thing.

Show me the data where a zebra's fecundity is related to the number of horsefly bites it receives.

See, I'm with you in the primary portion of this statement- if we're in a simulation, it doesn't make us any less 'real' - it doesn't matter whether I'm made of atoms or the stray thoughts of a passing horsefly.

Disclosure: I wrote for PC Mag in London for a while, so there's a bit of collegiality at work, but I've always seen him as a gadfly - a literary nickname for the horsefly, an annoying creature that buzzes and has a painful bite, but which perform useful functions of pollination, providing forensic evidence, and contribute to the weeding out evolutionary misfits.