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Example sentences for: beetle

How can you use “beetle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Its most unusual farm crop, however, is the Cochineal Beetle that, when squashed, emits a red dye used as coloring for Campari and lipsticks.
After all, the cartoon was inhabited by self-doubters (Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Pattie) and narcissists (Lucy, Snoopy), which made it a lot more nuanced than, say "Blondie" or "Beetle Bailey."
Consider Volkswagen's new Beetle, a shiny bubble of a thing whose tag line in print ads wonders: "Hug it?
The bark beetle is eating the spruce forests of Alaska.
The young spruce trees clinging to their dying parents' skirts are seemingly immune to the beetle's incursions.