"insect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sometimes the clouds of mayflies have caused power outages as well as causing roads to become slippery with squashed insects.
- When I was a kid (50 years ago), if you drove anywhere in the summer, the windscreen got covered with squashed insects.
- The stain looked like a squashed tropical insect.
- But now our car is inching by a black minivan, belly up, its doors splayed like the broken wings of a squashed insect.
- Motionless on the hospital floor, with smears of blood marking the space around it, it seemed more like a squashed insect than the ex-home of a human creature.
- The voice rose abruptly into a wild shriek, and Tanase collapsed and writhed like a squashed insect upon the earth.
- But Fehos' transpex imploded at 39 km down, with a crack heard on the radios of the world, and the craft, a squashed insect, plunged into the magma.
- Many bodies lay sprawled on the ground like squashed insects, arms and legs stiffened at odd angles.
- She wore a brilliant orange dress with tie-dyed splotches of purple like squashed insects.
- Children can also see giant digital photographs of moths and art made from squashed insects.
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