Each morning I killed roaches and cleaned the floor.

You want to kill ants, fleas and roaches, well, O.K.

"Every time she smokes crack," Mr. Taylor explained, "she thinks she's killing roaches."

The pesticides were used in cleaners, as well as in products to kill roaches and mice.

Shooting up barges at point-blank range with six-inch guns was like killing roaches by dropping an anvil on them:much more than the job required.

The chemicals in it would kill roaches and discolor stainless steel.

It was more extermination than combat, like killing especially large and ugly roaches.

By contrast, roaches they exposed to a dose of pure boric acid, the substance most commonly used to kill roaches, did not die for eight days.

Chlordane, a pesticide used to kill termites and roaches, was banned in 1988, but it is still showing up in dead owls.