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lice

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lice.

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And eventually, your community is full of lice, and then it is very difficult to get rid of them.

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Quick take

(proscribed) louse

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lice gathered in one view.

noun

(proscribed) louse

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lice.

noun

(proscribed) louse

Example sentences

1

And eventually, your community is full of lice, and then it is very difficult to get rid of them.

2

You can fill in a form online to confirm that your TV is not used to watch lice broadcast.

3

That's easy - until very, very recent human history, the louse/lice/nit has been a constant (and really annoying) companion of much of humanity.

4

I never paid anything to view birds and snakes and lice and dogs and cats and...

5

They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the doors of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy-coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people’s money.

6

Sent home dozens of times for head lice while in school.

7

It wasn't foliage, but hair lice and other pests...

8

Do bacteria have the same rights as lice which have the same rights as mice which have the same rights as dogs which have the same rights as whales?

9

The worst part is that it makes it harder to notice when I have other reasons to be itchy, which I've had many: pinworms, lice, jock itch.

10

There wasn't really much of a divide between the two cities, up until the 1920's when a fear of lice caused Mayor Tom Lea to cut back on immigration which eventually spawned the Bath Riots.

11

The fact that they quite likely had lice at one point that triggered this whole thing, is no longer provable, but if examined without this case history, we would dismiss it as some kind of waste of physician time.

12

Of course, I'm pretty sure there are racists in the south - as well as everywhere else, this is a common mental malady, which, like lice, often manifests itself when proper hygiene is not maintained.

Quote examples

1

He's not having to turn his back on economic theory to argue that the US would be better off if minimum wages were a little higher, and it wasn't slavish devotion to economic theory that caused him to contest what he described as a "moral" argument for wage regulation over redistribution from Pollin and Lice.

2

Currently it tends toward the Platonic 'Polis' model with a distinct class of people (The "po-lice") given sole responsibility for enforcement and access to the omni-panopticon(while being themselves above the law.) However if we apply Linus' Law (with many eyes, all bugs are shallow) it makes much more sense to give access to surveillance back to the people being surveilled.

3

This is in direct contradiction with what we know from pictures happened, namely that they had their hair cut as a life-saving measure to avoid typhus through hair lice, which was done, obviously, before they shwoered, and not after they were "gassed".

4

The article itself is more nuanced: > But otherwise, soldiers on both sides were likely to think that the more formidable Them was the rats and lice, the mold in the food, the cold or the comfortable officer at headquarters who seemed, in the words of one soldier, an “abstract tactician who from far away disposes of us.” > But in studying diaries and letters, Mr.

Proper noun examples

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Hair is a fairly dangerous product; Lice, fleas, ticks, and other nasties that can spread disease like to nest in it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lice in a sentence?

And eventually, your community is full of lice, and then it is very difficult to get rid of them.

What does lice mean?

(proscribed) louse

What part of speech is lice?

lice is commonly used as noun.