How to Use june bug in a Sentence
june bug
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The june bug traverses the flagstones lit through the glass door.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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The june bug lands on the floor after flirting a while with the dining room lamp.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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The june bug falls to the bottom of the bag but manages to recover from a new round of kicking by clasping to a leaf.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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By the time the white light that floods Bogotá on cloudy days grows bright enough to be blinding, the june bug has dug herself a refuge in the dirt.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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She is tormented by the fact that the june bug seems entirely unconcerned about becoming bait or being deported.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Certainly the june bug — winged music, forest crackle, witness to the lives of mud — will bequeath some of her vitality to the sharp song of the bird from a city so foreign to her.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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