"insect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Bertram Larvan was an inventor who designed a mechanical insect to control insect pests.
- Soon, he had an army of mechanical insects.
- They were incredibly small mechanical insects that were more versatile and were able to convert other lifeforms into Cybermen partially.
- The plot also involves a philosophical dilemma, juxtaposing the values of humanity and the efficiency of mechanical insects.
- Locke and Jean were seated in the Archon's office, surrounded by the faint, shadowy flutterings of his thousand mechanical insects.
- The white armour dissipates, the mechanical insects fluttering in a cloud above her head.
- Christine Burgin presents his impressive reproduction of an 18th-century scientific clock and two dozen small, toylike motorized figures that look like bizarre mechanical insects (Johnson).
- Elaborate motile amplifying lenses of his own design - contacting the corneal surfaces - projected from his failing eyes like the antennae of a mechanical insect.
- More intriguing than the big mechanical insects were the real things in little aquariums in the center of the room.
- Cameras clicked like a plague of mechanical insects; electronic flashes stuttered their brief lightning.
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