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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Appraised value: Ask the silverfish .
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In the bathroom I saw silverfish .
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Polly wiped the silverfish off the breadboard and started to cry.
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The silverfish , for example, has compound eyes but others in the group are blind.
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The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck.
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Until the cars moving along the university's peripheral roads were silverfish and the whole scene was dappled with low-lying cloud.
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We have no direct evidence of how they achieved flight but the living silverfish provides a clue.