INSECTS in a Sentence

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The sound of monotonous axe blows rang through the forest, and the insects, nodding upon their perches, crooned like old women.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSECTS
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insect
 n.  a small creature such as an ant or fly
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
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.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
4  The pheasant chicks were running lightly abroad, light as insects, from the coops where the fellow hens clucked anxiously.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  Mr. Bumble was meditating; it might be that the insects brought to mind, some painful passage in his own past life.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
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
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
8  Sometimes her sisters seemed far away and tiny and their incoherent voices came to her like the buzz of insects.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  The sound of monotonous axe blows rang through the forest, and the insects, nodding upon their perches, crooned like old women.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  The insects were making rhythmical noises.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  There was a lull in the noises of insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a devotional pause.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
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
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...
14  All the places round about furnished their contingent of insects.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
15  He hopped about and pecked the earth briskly, looking for seeds and insects.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  Only this insects produce one brood a year, whereas others produce seven or eight ones a year in our research.
17  Those who trade them hunt out the fiercest insects and devote many hours to training them.
18  An attack by a swarm of the reddish-brown insects can cause allergic reactions which can be fatal in extremely rare cases.
19  The insects are found everywhere, from the homes of the wealthiest industrialists to the lowliest slum dweller.
20  She discovered a small aperture in the wall, through which the insects had entered the room.
21  The birds peck insects from the log.
22  Kent found entomology the most annoying part of his biology course; studying insects bugged him.
23  Termite, sometimes incorrectly called white ants, is a group of social insects.
24  A collector of rare insects will show us some of his latest discoveries.
25  The pesticide is chemicals which farmers put on their crops to kill harmful insects.
26  Using a new database of genetic traits, a group of scientists have discovered that humankind's most common ancestor with other placental mammals was a rat-sized animal with a long tail that likely lived on insects.
27  She scratched at the insect bites on her arm.
28  He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
29  The little boy caught the insect by inverting her cup over it.
30  He instanced the fly as dirty insect.