| 单词 | flypaper |
| 例句 | I went by the cakewalk in a marquee festooned with many curls of flypaper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Regular flypaper was sticky and smelled like things flies liked, so they got drawn to it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Grandma gazed past her, seeming to count the corpses on the flypaper strip. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z That evening Grandma and I had a quiet supper at the kitchen table, under the ceiling light and the flypaper strips. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A naked lightbulb hung from the ceiling, right next to three or four dangling spiral strips of flypaper so thick with flies that you couldn’t see the sticky yellow surface underneath. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The floorboards had been treated with varnish or paint, which bubbled in the fire’s heat and turned as sticky as flypaper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He was as stuck as a fly on flypaper! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A flypaper roll entirely free of flies curled down from the ceiling not far from a sack that hung there too. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Its tail dangled down so far, it looked like one of the flypaper strips that hung from her kitchen ceiling. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She tried to dodge it, but the enchanted muck yanked her back, flinging her and Mini to the wall so that they were like bugs trapped on flypaper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She felt like a fly stuck to flypaper just waiting to die. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Now, these were the only Negroes I knew or had contact with in the days of my flypaper childhood, and you can see how little I was prepared for the great world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, they had big patches of metallic sheets—the “flypaper”—unspooled and placed at various points throughout the yard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The compression and repetition have a flattening effect: it's as if we can feel the tenement walls pressing on the inhabitants of those "streets … / whose mean houses hold mean lives,/ wallpaper, flypaper,/ paperfaced brats." Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z Her ties to Stageworks, a 100-seat theater in a former flypaper factory, helped the suddenly controversial play to see the light of day. Deborah Margolin?s Madoff Play, Now Without Wiesel 2010-07-20T00:39:00Z "It's an event to catch people like flypaper and for the 200th anniversary it's a disgrace," she said. Wagner "Ring" in birthday year at Bayreuth channels U.S. South 2013-07-26T21:19:53Z The flashbacks show both her longing for a real home and family and her resistance to Vee’s flypaper advances. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Taystee Gets Her Moment 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The touchstone, the lodestar, the flypaper for me at first was, predictably, Parsons. Riff: I Love ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ And You Should, Too. 2013-05-26T02:11:30Z Still today, the pit attracts and inadvertently immobilizes mammals, birds and insects like “flies on flypaper,” according to Bird Center’s statement on the incident. Just two of 15 wild geese found trapped in Los Angeles tar pits have survived 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The bubbling tar, or asphalt, has previously captured small mammals, birds and insects like “flies on flypaper,” according to the International Bird Rescue. Flock of 15 Canada geese hurt after landing in the La Brea Tar Pits. Two are recovering 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Det Con Stephen Williams from Dyfed Powys Police described a cluttered room, with flypaper full of flies next to a 16th birthday balloon and cards. Kaylea Titford: Finding teen's body officer's 'worst experience' 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z A strip of flypaper dangled from the ceiling. With Western Weapons, Ukraine Is Turning the Tables in an Artillery War 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z In a dank home in the village of Malotaranivka on the outskirts of Kramatorsk, speckled twists of flypaper hung from the living room ceiling. ‘The money is gone’: Evacuated Ukrainians forced to return 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith later asked Mr. Carlson why his show has been “flypaper for racists” who were formerly on Mr. Carlson’s staff. Tucker Carlson jabs journalist as ‘propagandist’ in heated interview 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Poxvirus proteins containing these repeats act as “molecular flypaper,” Evans says, glomming onto host proteins involved with coordinating the immune response. Concern grows that human monkeypox outbreak will establish virus in animals outside Africa 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z As it is, dozens of them are stuck to a twisted band of sticky flypaper hanging from the ceiling. One body at a time, a Kyiv coroner documents Ukraine’s death toll 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z River reeds that grow in my backyard, and the flypaper was hanging in Don’s studio. How Linda Stark transforms kitschy hearts into visceral symbols of love and valor 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z A cylinder of flypaper covered with insects hung from an overhang. Park Police horses to get new, more modern home on the Mall 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Hopkin said he uses flypaper and water traps to catch the moths that get into his home. Miller time: Moths take over Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z It said American arms sales acted “like flypaper in trapping the U.S. in Yemen.” Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z To him, we’re like dolls cut from flypaper, each one of us connected to the other and dotted with foul little corpses. Hurricane Season 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The flypaper and the burrs were in my immediate environment, so it was seeing them daily that familiarized me with the material. How Linda Stark transforms kitschy hearts into visceral symbols of love and valor 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z He’s 6 feet 5 and 254 pounds, with a grip sticky as flypaper. NFC South preview: Jared Cook must prove he can be a game-changer for Saints 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z On returning to her office, Ms. Haspel found a solution, according to two officials familiar with the episode, and sent it to Mr. Trump: flypaper. Gina Haspel Relies on Spy Skills to Connect With Trump. He Doesn’t Always Listen. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z I learned to regard with nonchalance the rolls of flypaper that dangled from the ceilings. Faith and Family Among the Amish 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Facebook users are attracted to the platform like flies to flypaper. Facebook Falls From Grace, and Investors’ Stock Holdings Tumble Too 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Trentlage, who wrote that and a number of other jingles that have the mental stickiness of flypaper, died on Sept. 21 at the Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill. He was 87. Richard D. Trentlage, 87, Who Wrote ‘The Oscar Mayer Wiener Song,’ Dies 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The tech giant received a patent Tuesday for a kind of human flypaper that would sit beneath an eggshell-like protective layer on the car’s front, the Mercury News reports. Google Patents Glue to Stick Pedestrian to Self-Driving Car 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “While Ronald Reagan went on to become the ‘Teflon president’ .?.?. by contrast Nancy would become something like the ‘flypaper first lady,’” Deaver said. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “While Ronald Reagan went on to become the ‘Teflon president’ . . . by contrast Nancy would become something like the ‘flypaper first lady.’ Nancy Reagan dies at 94; first lady was a defining figure of the 1980s 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z If Reagan was the Teflon president, family friend and former aide Michael Deaver wrote, then Mrs. Reagan was the “flypaper first lady.” As first lady, Nancy Reagan’s mission was backing ‘Ronnie’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z That could be catnip enough for critical praise; commenting on the daffiness of TV writing and production has been award flypaper for a handful of modern network shows, most recently 30 Rock. The Grinder is turning into a worthy descendant of Arrested Development 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “The adhesive layer may be a very sticky material and operate in a manner similar to flypaper, or double-sided duct tape,” the patent reads. Google Patents Glue to Stick Pedestrian to Self-Driving Car 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z For one, though the decoy call does fool the bugs, they’re still adept at avoiding the flypaper. Decoy Mating Call Battles Citrus Pest 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The second victim, now 58, had a flypaper memory of the night of July 10, 1995. Old rape kits and 4 brave women bring rapist to justice 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z May Revis dance and cut and offer the Jets his usual flypaper defense. Darrelle Revis Cashes In, as Other N.F.L. Stars Choose to Walk Away 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Right now, scientists gathering comet dust by plane use plates coated with silicon oil to trap the particles like flies in flypaper. Comet dust found in Antarctica 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z But the streetcar “became like flypaper,” Horwitt said, sticking to every other issue. Arlington board tensions could hamper work after the streetcar vote Early one morning, after putting on makeup underneath a copper-colored strip of flypaper that dangled from the bathroom ceiling, Ms. Vargas slid her youngest child, Isaac, 5, into the back seat of her car. Boom Meets Bust in Texas: Atop Sea of Oil, Poverty Digs In 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The ever-shifting sand deposits act like flypaper to the hulls of boats navigating Jamaica Bay. Summer Shorelines: When There’s Trouble at Sea, a Captain Sees His Paycheck 2013-08-15T16:12:16Z Brodman cooked for her and fed her, and then studied at the table under the flypaper, listening for her dry coughs. Nicole Krauss: “Zusya on the Roof.” 2013-01-28T05:00:00Z In the kitchen, strips of flypaper, covered in dead bugs, dangle from the ceiling. The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm 2012-11-02T01:22:11Z Here is one reason why: telecom bills are like flypaper for seedy and even respectable merchants. Verizon Is Heading for a Bank of America Moment 2011-12-30T03:03:03Z Next, Obama called on Emanuel, who privately had referred to the war as "political flypaper" - you get stuck to it and you can't get unstuck. Biden warned Obama during Afghan war review not to get 'locked into Vietnam' 2010-09-28T01:15:00Z When combined with potash or soda it is used to saturate flypapers, and strong solutions can be obtained by soaking these in water; this fact has also been used with criminal intent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Why, that bad fox landed right in the midst of the hot, soft candies, and they got all over his feet, like sticky flypaper, and they burned him. Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys Aloud, she proceeded, more seriously: "If it's in the flypapers, why don't we all get poisoned, ma?" Coquette "This store is a kind of suffragist flypaper put out to catch as many as we can by offering bargains and credit to possible voters," said Susan to Judge Regis. The Co-Citizens Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul.... One Man's Initiation—1917 Well, say, a kitten with four feet stuck in the flypaper didn't have anything on me. Torchy, Private Sec. "Yes, it is; and flypaper is made from my sticky pine gum," said the tree. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods He doesn't know what he's up against if he thinks Mort Bassett can be caught on flypaper, and you can be dead sure I'm not going to sprinkle the sugar to catch our boss with. A Hoosier Chronicle President Cleveland—And are you using that flypaper according to directions? Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 It seemed his one best bet, the only way to get his feet out of the flypaper. By Advice of Counsel TANGLEFOOT, he was the man who first stuck flies on flypaper. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be "Why—why, it's just like sticky flypaper, isn't it?" asked Uncle Wiggily, trying again to get loose, but not doing so. Uncle Wiggily in the Woods Did you ever watch a fly get his Needless Knocks on the sticky flypaper? The University of Hard Knocks As the man said when he sat down on the flypaper. Where There's a Will Sunday Afternoon": "The wind pushes huge bundles Of itself in warm motion Through the barrack windows; It rattles a sheet of flypaper Tacked in a smear of sunshine on the sill. A Study of Poetry Fragments of flypaper and brindle hair were found as far west as the Yellowstone National Park, and as far north as the British line, but the doctor herself was not found. Remarks I was certain he would die—drop dead while crawling across his flypaper. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Remember, son, to stay away from the sticky flypaper. The University of Hard Knocks He thought of the flies that tear their legs off struggling to get free of the flypaper. The Trial He prowls around and challenges man until he comes to the flypaper; he then slinks away. Autobiography of a Yogi It has been suggested that flypapers should be so sprinkled as to produce an aesthetic design in dead flies, so as to introduce beauty into the homes of the poor. Without Prejudice He walked with an angular crawl that reminded one of the emaciated flies one sees at the beginning of winter dragging themselves perversely along as if struggling across an illimitable expanse of flypaper. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago But when he sees all the smart young flies of his set go over to the flypaper, he goes over, too. The University of Hard Knocks Its driver was the boy who had brought the flypaper and "Job." The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Lady said she wanted a cosmetic for her complexion, but what she was really going for was flypapers for to do away with her husband. The Lodger But he kept on and drew nearer and nearer, breathing hard and gathering flies like a flypaper. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll The agricultural model for instance, which was practicable, proved a kind of flypaper for these busybodies. The Wrecker This sticky flypaper shows me up better than anything at home. The University of Hard Knocks He feels tired and he sits down in the sticky flypaper. The University of Hard Knocks That was sneaked out of a flypaper, that was. The Lodger They all feel the same way—they can play in the sticky flypaper or let it alone, just as they please, for they are strong-minded flies. The University of Hard Knocks |
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