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Usage examples of cockroach.

The relief proved short, however, for the ambar turned out to be some sort of arthropod, something like a gigantic cockroach the size of a lobster, half buried under other ambiguous objects and an oily sauce that had been poured over all.

Despite my oft-noted resemblance to a cockroach or a crab you are much more closely related to your order crustacea or arthropoda than I.

Like cockroaches and the coelacanth, bats have been around for more than fifty million years in more or less the form that you see them now.

Charlie is brave: he started a coffeehouse by talking his bank into giving him a loan on his house back in the days when you only saw rats, cockroaches, derelicts, and Charlie himself on the streets of Old Town.

One by one they had left home rather than give up their addiction, and now shared an apartment in a complex inhabited by cokeheads, crackheads, winos, cockroaches, and rats.

Joseph Wolpe used desensitization with a patient fearful of cockroaches.

Few were interesting or unusual: a number of brown hairstreaks, some Camberwell beauties, three hissing cockroaches, several brimstones.

It was an unsavory and fetid concoction of warmed headcheese, sprinkles of curdled milk, and fish scales, garnished on top with a dead cockroach.

It was aware of them, but only as a cockroach might be aware of the jars and boxes in the cupboard it inhabits, as potential sources of what it needed.

Imps and lemures and skeletal men hunkered and scuttled like cockroaches exposed to the blinding flare of Lady Polaris and her power.

Even though shaped a bit like a cockroach, my Lovebug can produce the stuff inside her teeny little heart.

While the capsules still floated high above the ground, small openings ejected newly revived impregnated queens of the honeybee, the Asian carpenter bee, and the bumblebee, as well as fireflies, caddis flies, nonbiting midges, cockroaches, and lac bugs.

It was as if a great German cockroach had grown to maybe one-and-three-quarters of a meter tall and in proportion, then developed thick hind legs that allowed it to walk bipedally, with the underside up.

And since rats and cockroaches live in sewers, city dwellers should make sure that shower and bath drains have strainers.

Fossilized cockroaches indicate that it has existed for three hundred and sixty million years, virtually unchanged.