BUG in a Sentence

bug

 v.  tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

 n.  general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

1  He had refused to permit it and stated heatedly that she had no more sense than a June bug and furthermore it gave him the fidgets to be around her longer than five minutes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

2  "Pa is coming tomorrow and he's going to land on me like a duck on a June bug," answered Scarlett dolorously.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

3  But if I tried to draw a draft on it, the Yankees would be on me like a duck on a June bug and then neither of us would get it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

4  The sand began to work, and presently a small black bug appeared for a second and then darted under again in a fright.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

5  That's the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we'd a had him along 'stead of our kings he'd a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.'

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.

6  Laurie and Jo rowed one boat, Mr. Brooke and Ned the other, while Fred Vaughn, the riotous twin, did his best to upset both by paddling about in a wherry like a disturbed water bug.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE

7  It was Jack-o'-lanterns, or lightning bugs; so he set down again, and went to watching, same as before.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.

8  We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet's nest, but we didn't.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.

9  Queer little red bugs came out and moved in slow squadrons around me.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II

10  Jim's eyes bugged out when he heard that; and I reckon mine did, too.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX.

1  I picked up a bug last weekend.

2  The bird caught a bug on the fly.

3  There might be a certain bug in the machine.

4  I couldn't run the program because it contained a computer bug I could neither identify nor cure.

5  The new software incorporates many bug fixes and product improvements.

6  I think I've caught a bug.

7  Security experts are urging PC users to temporarily stop browsing the Web with Internet Explorer, saying a newly identified bug makes computers susceptible to attack by hackers.

8  Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified Shellshock computer bug, also widely known as the "Bash bug," using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers warned on Thursday.

9  It might have seemed to him a waste of ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery.

10  It's fine when you make sensible criticisms, but it really bugs me when you cavil about unimportant details.

11  The bugs scuttle rapidly across the floor.

12  Apple announced a list of vulnerabilities that would command big bounties, including $25,000 for ways around Apple's digital compartments and into its customers' data, $50,000 for bugs that give hackers a way into iCloud data, and $200,000 to turn over critical vulnerabilities in Apple's firmware — the software that lies closest to the bare metal of the machine.

13  That's what bugs my missus more than anything.

14  Kent found entomology the most annoying part of his biology course; studying insects bugged him.

15  I am in a paranoid suspicion that the phone might be bugged.