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How To Use longlegs In A Sentence

• Going up the scale from the gnat, it is found that with the dragon fly this ratio is 30 to 1, with the _tipula_, or daddy-longlegs, 14.5 to 1, the cockchafer only 5.15 to 1, the rhinoceros beetle 3.14 to 1. Our Bird Comrades
• He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Channeling Characters
• I call a sawfly, 'I said very patiently,' is a red animal, like a daddy-longlegs, but not so big, perhaps an inch long, perhaps less. A Thin Ghost and Others
• Meanwhile, witches' brooms serve as a safe haven for daddy longlegs and pseudoscorpions.
• In Ireland "dapping" with the green drake or the daddy-longlegs is practised from boats on most of the big loughs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• I'd love to make wildlife documentary about woodlice living in your house; Daddy Longlegs must seem gigantic, if you're a woodlouse.
• Cave crickets and harvestmen or ‘daddy longlegs’ that live inside the caves during the day and feed outside the caves at night contribute important nutrients to the cave ecosystem.
• It looks like daddy longlegs are growing out of her eye sockets. HIGH BEFORE HOMEROOM
• The ones some of us call daddy-longlegs are harvestmen, which look like very skinny spiders but are, of course, opiliones. Times, Sunday Times
• The 400-million-year-old fossil organ belongs to a harvestmen or daddy longlegs, a non-web-spinning arachnid, related to mites and ticks.