How To Use Earwig In A Sentence
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She was even with her hubby, the Labour wa it loads of calls, all work related (yes I was big style earwigging), and I was quite impressed that they were travelling cattle class.
Army Rumour Service
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On Saint Helena there existed, at least until recently, a species of giant earwig—the world’s largest and no doubt most repulsive dermapteran insect.
The Song of The Dodo
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'It was hardly undercover/he went on. 1 just went to a few games, drank in a few pubs and earwigged a few conversations.
Be My Enemy
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From shamelessly earwigging the author's conversation with her friend we learnt the following facts:
Advances -- part 2
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When it comes to the debates, he will need an 'earwig' so he can be fed answers like on that game show movie.
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Even earwigs can be useful because they eat aphids, codling moth eggs and the red spider mite.
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The morning after Brian left, she came waddling out to the adorable, earwiggy, rose-covered summer-house that I'd annexed as a private sitting room.
Everyman's Land
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Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown.
Finnegans Wake
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They went on about benefits, making ends meet and why New Labour is so out of touch with the plight of those on the dole as I nodded surreptitiously into my pint, earwigging all the while.
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Rising late in the morning to tents mysteriously full of earwigs we set off for a look.
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The old tree soon sprang back into life and contains in its crown a thriving miniature wood of elder, bramble, ivy, ash, nettles and goosegrass, as well as a whole city of woodlice, earwigs and beetles.
Wildwood
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These stories have little basis in fact, although earwigs have been known to cause a mildly painful bite when sat upon or handled.
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Yes; nipcheese means purser of the ship -- you'll find all that out by-and-by; you've got lots to larn, and, by way of a hint, make him your friend if you can, for he earwigs the captain in fine style.
Percival Keene
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The name "earwig" itself is sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more utterly unintelligible.
Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
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Suppose he was to do all this, and besides to blow upon a plant we’ve all been in, more or less — of his own fancy; not grabbed, trapped, tried, earwigged by the parson and brought to it on bread and water, — but of his own fancy; to please his own taste; stealing out at nights to find those most interested against us, and peaching to them.
Oliver Twist
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The large collection includes earthworms, slugs, snails, beetles, earwigs, ants, moths, crickets, spiders, millipedes and centipedes.
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Off Earwig must go to an adoptive home, a sinister bungalow occupied by the witch Bella Yaga and her bad-tempered, red-eyed companion, the Mandrake.
A Prize Winner With a Poignant Sense of Loss
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He'd been earwigging on our conversation and asked me what it was all about.
The Beagle Project on the BBC and cut dead by creationists on a train.
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Mr Culpepper, the purser, was my abomination -- a nasty, earwigging, flattering, bowing old rogue.
Percival Keene
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I actually can't picture what an earwig looks like, but I can see why you hate them.
Why Do Earwigs Exist?
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Earwigging on the crew, we heard nothing but praise.
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We found earwig.com, bizfloss.com, stoptalking.com, halfcat.com and fubar.mil were all untaken.
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A waitress breezed by, and Steff ordered a bottle of Dos Equis (the nearest thing he could get to McEwan's Export; it was dark and rough) in a near-whisper, diligently earwigging the conversation on his right.
Not the End of the World
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I can imagine a young ant getting a severe earwigging from one of the major-domos for its stupidity.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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Quite often when we chat about not-specifically-work-things, Jim earwigs and contributes.
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Probably scream if an earwig crawled into the sleeping-bag - and that was the other thing.
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Foodies will appreciate the two-person booths opposite the open kitchen where you can earwig on the chefs as they work their way through the service.
West London's top 10 budget eats
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But what in the blue hell does an earwig do besides gross me out?
Why Do Earwigs Exist?
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Our venue is on Charlotte Street, where the tables are placed close enough for you to earwig on each other's ideas for another makeover series.
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Natural enemies of greenflies are ladybird larvae, hoverfly larvae, gall-fly larvae, lacewings and earwigs.
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A malfunction is being blamed for some callers being able to listen in to other people's calls - and presumably, other people earwigging into their conversations.
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Ants and insects including silverfish, woolly bears, earwigs and spiders can be tackled with products from hardware shops.
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Biological method, involves the use of natural predators such as earwig, green muscardine fungus, and white muscardine fungus to paralyze and eventually kill the pest.
The Hindu - Front Page
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In one episode, a small, pinkish earwig-type creature scuttles across the floor, up a man's pants and into his mouth.
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She is not expecting Dysart until the day has well grown into its afternoon; but, book in hand, she has escaped from all possible visitors to spend a quiet hour in the old earwiggy shanty at the end of the garden, sure of finding herself safe there from interruptions.
April's Lady A Novel
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As an investigative hack, Parlabane was a ninth-dan blackbelt in the art of earwigging, but he had soon learned there was little need to be surreptitious about it in a place where nobody would ever describe discretion as the better part of valour.
Boiling a Frog
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Suppose he was to do all this, and besides to blow upon a plant we've all been in, more or less -- of his own fancy; not grabbed, trapped, tried, earwigged by the parson and brought to it on bread and water, -- but of his own fancy; to please his own taste; stealing out at nights to find those most interested against us, and peaching to them.
Oliver Twist
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Cockroaches, scorpions, earwigs, mosquitoes, termites, beetles, ants and even fleas, present different challenges to homeowner ... read more fauna how-to lifestyles
Mi Pullman: remodeling a Mexican Art Nouveau townhouse I
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I earwigged into a conversation with her last season and she told me what a beautiful horse it was.
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Singer Kirsty Yates' vocals and spooky lyrics provide the strongest bridge between Earwig past and present.
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The Restaurant du Soleil, where the marriage feast was held, was an earwiggy hostelry on the outskirts of the town, sheltered from the prying roadway by a screen of green lattice and a series of _tonnelles_, the dusty arbours, each furnished with table and chairs, beloved of
The Belovéd Vagabond
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They finally got her into the office, so I started earwigging outside. ‘Look, if you promise not to come into the store again nicking, we'll let you go.’
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You lived in the white-washed cottage, all honeysuckle and clematis without -- earwiggy and damp within, maybe.
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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He's looking a little distracted, as he's trying to earwig on the Edge's conversation.
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I shall have to wiki an earwig, as I'm not sure what they are!!!
Why Do Earwigs Exist?
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After the conference speeches are over, I drift around the hotel bars earwigging on conversations.
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He could easily have cited the Aldabran tortoise, the chuckwalla of Angel de la Guarda, the hippo of Madagascar, the beetles of Madeira, the elephantids of Timor, the iguanas of the Galápagos, the finches of Darwin and Lack, the earwig of Saint Helena, and the dodo.
The Song of The Dodo
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Like most writers, Dewar is a good listener, earwigging on other's conversations.
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In the above situation it is quite appropriate to look the other way whilst earwigging and they will pretend you can't hear their conversation.
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The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
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Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
Little Women
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In one corner was a hefty table of corporate lawyers (no interesting earwigging there); in another sat the insurance posse; over to my left were the corporate finance crew.
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Uliba went on sobbing, and Masteeat frowned at me as though becoming aware that the family squabble was being earwigged by this foreigner.
Flashman on the March
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He published papers illustrating discontinuous variation in floral symmetry and in terminal forceps of earwigs and the hornlike processes seen in certain male beetles.
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As we watched, cockroaches, earwigs, isopods, and other small arthropods ran to escape the advancing waves of ants.
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The earwigs will hide in these and every morning if you tip out the contents you'll get not alone the hay filling but quite a number of insects as well.
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Random people preceding me were confronting various BBC folk and questioning them, and I dutifully earwigged.
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They gave him an earwigging, which he took in good part.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earwig stuffed a huge piece of a corncake into his mouth.
Brothers Majere
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If all of God's creatures have a useful purpose — a rightful place, as it were — on this planet, then someone please explain to me just what the hell kind of purpose God had in mind for the earwig.
Archive 2009-07-01
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And according to a costuming chap I once earwigged on, Martin Shaw rolls up his sleeves in every production because he believes his forearms to be particularly attractive.
Spooky
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Hagrid sent him a bunch of earwiggy flowers that looked like yellow cabbages, and Ginny Weasley, blushing furiously, turned up with a get-well card she had made herself, which sang shrilly unless Harry kept it shut under his bowl of fruit.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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He gained his end; saw the new will signed; earwigged the lawyer; and kept a copy of it.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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That frame, too, was smashed out and thrown atop of the others and the foul earwiggy quilts.
Actions and Reactions
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'It is all settled; let us return,' said Amanda, appearing at last with an air of triumph, having appeased the old lady by eating green currants, and admiring an earwiggy arbour, commanding a fine view of a marsh where frogs were piping and cool mists rising as the sun set.
Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
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Now one couple have taken their earwigging a step further.
The Sun
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Several tales exist concerning alleged damage of earwigs: how they like to crawl into ears or how the forceps cause a painful pinch.
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If he identifies himself as an Ashes fast bowler this summer then Angus Fraser, his director of cricket at Middlesex, might reflect on a gentle earwigging from his dad a month ago and deem it worthwhile.
England's Steven Finn at home but Ajmal Shahzad has capital capers