FLEA in a Sentence

Learn FLEA from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for FLEA, such as:

1. Probably it was a party of hag fleas.
2. Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
3. Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
4. He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
5. If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLEA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flea
 n.  any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
Classic Sentence:
1  I feel I've got something to say about running Gopher Prairie, but you take it in a big city of two-three hundred thousand, and I'm just one flea on the dog's back.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
3  Probably it was a party of hag fleas.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Old Karay had turned his head and was angrily searching for fleas, baring his yellow teeth and snapping at his hind legs.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
5  "Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers," answered the buffoon.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
6  He had heard dreadful stories of the midwives, who grow as thick as fleas in Packingtown; and he had made up his mind that Ona must have a man-doctor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  The streets are scarcely wide enough for a carriage to pass, and the lanes are but a flea's leap across— a measurement that naturally occurs here.
2  A young kid came asking for money but I sent him away with a flea in his ear.
3  He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
4  If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
5  Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
6  Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.