GRASSHOPPER in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for GRASSHOPPER, such as:
1. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars.
2. He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step.
3. Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper.
4. Lizards, grasshoppers, and ants were the only living things to be beheld.
5. A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.
2. He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step.
3. Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper.
4. Lizards, grasshoppers, and ants were the only living things to be beheld.
5. A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.
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Meanings and Examples of GRASSHOPPER
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grasshopper
n. a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)
n. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
Classic Sentence:
1 As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in.
2 Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, which regaled the passers by through this Egyptian scene with its strident, monotonous note.
3 He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step.
4 A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.
5 True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
6 Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper.
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 A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
9 Lizards, grasshoppers, and ants were the only living things to be beheld.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
10 Yet Thomasin occupied Mrs. Yeobright's thoughts but slightly as she looked up the valley of the heath, alive with butterflies, and with grasshoppers whose husky noises on every side formed a whispered chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
11 Thousands of grasshoppers, hidden in the bushes, chirped with a monotonous and dull note; the leaves of the myrtle and olive trees waved and rustled in the wind.
12 All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines.
13 "Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers," answered the buffoon.
14 We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars.
Example Sentence:
1 Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer while others have plenty.