INSECT in a Sentence
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74 example sentences for INSECT, such as:
1. The ant is a social insect.
2. She's as thin as a stick insect.
3. He instanced the fly as dirty insect.
4. He scratched the insect bite on his leg.
5. Don't be silly, that insect can't hurt you.
2. She's as thin as a stick insect.
3. He instanced the fly as dirty insect.
4. He scratched the insect bite on his leg.
5. Don't be silly, that insect can't hurt you.
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Meanings and Examples of INSECT
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insect
n. small air-breathing arthropod
n. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 In his drowsy condition he inhaled the latter insect, sneezed violently, and so returned to consciousness.
2 It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
3 I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect.
4 I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect.
5 Our servile rabble applauded, but I attacked him, not from compassion for the girls and their fathers, but simply because they were applauding such an insect.
6 Zverkov, without a word, examined me as though I were an insect.
7 Suddenly they heard a remote sound, like the hum of a giant insect, and following the high-road, which wound whiter through the surrounding twilight, a black object rushed across their vision.
8 While we were lying there against the warm bank, a little insect of the palest, frailest green hopped painfully out of the buffalo grass and tried to leap into a bunch of bluestem.
9 He untied the handkerchief, separated her hair with his fingers, and stood looking down at the green insect.
10 The insect voices of the night sang solemnly.
11 The silent being who thus occupied himself seemed to be of no more account in life than an insect.
12 He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
13 He had already on his insect hunts learned to penetrate the Grimpen Mire, and so had found a safe hiding-place for the creature.
14 To bear even the sting of an insect for all eternity would be a dreadful torment.
15 Corley swung his head to and fro as if to toss aside an insistent insect, and his brows gathered.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 She scratched at the insect bites on her arm.
2 He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
3 The little boy caught the insect by inverting her cup over it.
4 He instanced the fly as dirty insect.
5 Don't be silly, that insect can't hurt you.
6 He scratched the insect bite on his leg.
7 Birds are the natural enemies of many insect pests.
8 Rubbing this special cream into the insect bite will help to take away the worst of the pain.
9 The ant is a social insect.
10 Over a hundred species of insect are found in this area.
11 She's as thin as a stick insect.
12 The insect inserts the stinger into the skin and a venom is released into the surrounding tissue.
13 Some communicable diseases are transmitted only through the agency of vermin or insects.
14 The more pesticides are used, the more resistant the insects become so the more pesticides have to be used.
15 From the top of the skyscraper the cars below us looked like insects.