grasshopper

How To Use grasshopper In A Sentence

• Workers feed them daily a mix of flakes, worms, grasshoppers and freeze-dried shrimp.
• The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
• This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
• Only butterflies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes and flies are netted there.
• Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis.
• A common plaything for Chinese children, the grasshopper is defamiliarized as ‘a six-legged monster, fresh-grass green, with saw-blade jaws, bulging eyes, and whips for eyebrows’.
• Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
• There are lots of grasshoppers around here, but my hens patrol the garden perimeter fence and really reduce the numbers of insects in the garden.
• She strained her ears, but all she heard was the chirping of the birds and the buzzing song of the grasshoppers. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• Japanese write as a repetition of the syllables jun-ta; and the name junta is sometimes given to the grasshopper itself. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series