GRASSHOPPER in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRASSHOPPER
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grasshopper
 n.  terrestrial plant-eating insect
 n.  young student in initial stages of training
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.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
2  Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, which regaled the passers by through this Egyptian scene with its strident, monotonous note.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
3  He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
4  A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
5  True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
6  Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
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  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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
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
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
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
12  All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
13  "Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers," answered the buffoon.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
14  We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
Example Sentence:
1  Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer while others have plenty.