BEETLE in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for BEETLE, such as:
1. Every beetle finds its own food.
2. He was pinned like a beetle on a card.
3. The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger.
4. The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.
5. Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
2. He was pinned like a beetle on a card.
3. The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger.
4. The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.
5. Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BEETLE
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beetle
v. be suspended over or hang over
a. jutting or overhanging
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger.
2 A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.
3 The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.
4 Other people uninterested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too.
5 He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged.
6 There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more.
7 There in that hollow of the sun-baked field were congregated the grasshopper, the ant, and the beetle, rolling pebbles of sun-baked earth through the glistening stubble.
8 Every beetle finds its own food.
9 He was pinned like a beetle on a card.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
10 On a peach-coloured divan sat Lady Narborough, pretending to listen to the duke's description of the last Brazilian beetle that he had added to his collection.
11 In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
12 Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
13 She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles.
14 Then, I looked round and saw the disturbed beetles and spiders running away over the floor, and the servants coming in with breathless cries at the door.
15 Bonnie, who had watched from the window impatiently all afternoon, anxious to display a mangled collection of beetles and roaches to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests.
Example Sentence:
1 The fires have taken hold because of drought and an infestation of bark beetle, which has left millions of dead trees.
2 Nothing will save a tree after the main trunk is attacked by large numbers of this beetle.
3 The man with the bottle was an Ossetian, like Stalin - squat and dark, with the same sort of brows, mustache and beetle eyes.