Examples of “insect” in a Sentence

noun A small six-legged creature with a hard outer shell, typically with wings, such as an ant, beetle, or fly.

• The garden was buzzing with insects on that warm afternoon.
• Bees are insects essential to pollinating crops.
• A tiny insect landed on my arm and then flew away.

noun (informal, derogatory) A person regarded as insignificant or contemptible.

• He treated the interns like insects, barely acknowledging them.
• The bully sneered that everyone below him was just an insect.
• She refused to be treated like an insect by her arrogant boss.