Meanings of dead cockroaches in English

Instead there at the empty bottom were two dead cockroaches, starved to death.

A woodbox coated in dust that held only dead cockroaches and rat droppings when he raised its lid.

To determine the chemical composition of these pheromones, Rollo and his team started crushing dead cockroaches and spreading around their body juice.

'Edward, she showed me the box; it was made to hold cigarettes, and there were three dead cockroaches inside.