BEETLE in a Sentence

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For BEETLE, below is one of 21 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEETLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Other people uninterested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
8  Every beetle finds its own food.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
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
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
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...
12  Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
13  She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
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.