INSECTS in a Sentence
Learn INSECTS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
74 example sentences for INSECTS, such as:
1. Some insects can change color.
2. Birds, fish, and insects lay eggs.
3. Most bees and wasps are social insects.
4. The insects were making rhythmical noises.
5. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
2. Birds, fish, and insects lay eggs.
3. Most bees and wasps are social insects.
4. The insects were making rhythmical noises.
5. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
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Meanings and Examples of INSECTS
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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 Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
2 But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women.
3 Every sound of insects in the air, every stirring of the leaves, every whisper among these men, made Sissy tremble, for she thought it was a cry at the bottom of the pit.
4 The pheasant chicks were running lightly abroad, light as insects, from the coops where the fellow hens clucked anxiously.
5 Mr. Bumble was meditating; it might be that the insects brought to mind, some painful passage in his own past life.
6 The lantern, dangling from Christian's hand, brushed the feathery fronds in passing by, disturbing moths and other winged insects, which flew out and alighted upon its horny panes.
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
7 Giving pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning the capture of mice, little birds, and insects.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
8 Sometimes her sisters seemed far away and tiny and their incoherent voices came to her like the buzz of insects.
9 The sound of monotonous axe blows rang through the forest, and the insects, nodding upon their perches, crooned like old women.
10 The insects were making rhythmical noises.
11 There was a lull in the noises of insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a devotional pause.
12 He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener could have wished to see him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
13 It has eleven claws of iron with which to seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more antennae than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
14 All the places round about furnished their contingent of insects.
15 He hopped about and pecked the earth briskly, looking for seeds and insects.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 Some communicable diseases are transmitted only through the agency of vermin or insects.
2 The more pesticides are used, the more resistant the insects become so the more pesticides have to be used.
3 From the top of the skyscraper the cars below us looked like insects.
4 At the first cold of autumn, many insects go into hibernation.
5 He has a collection of prehistoric insects preserved in amber.
6 Some insects can change color.
7 Birds, fish, and insects lay eggs.
8 Outside the tent I could hear the constant drone of insects.
9 Flowers are designed to attract insects which then carry the pollen from plant to plant.
10 The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
11 Most bees and wasps are social insects.
12 Some species of duck dive for food, while others dabble for plants and insects near the surface.
13 If you lever up the stone with a stick, you will find lots of insects living beneath it.
14 The surface of the wood was pitted with holes made by insects.
15 These brightly coloured insects flit about above the surface of the water.