churchyard beetle

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noun

a blackish nocturnal ground beetle, Blaps mucronata, found in cellars and similar places

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Words nearby churchyard beetle

churchward, churchwarden, churchwoman, churchy, churchyard, churchyard beetle, churidars, churinga, churl, churlish, churn

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How to use churchyard beetle in a sentence

Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.
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In 2007, FWS reported that the beetle outbreak had affected only 16 percent of the whitebark pines.
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The Beetle was launched with a series of television commercials unlike any before them.
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Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.
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I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard.
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In the Chartist riots of 1839, the people tore up the railings round the churchyard to use as pikes.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
The churchyard was partly surrounded by houses, and in 1781 "iron pallisadoes" were affixed to the wall.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
But strangest of all the dishes at the Tagal's feast was one prepared from a kind of beetle.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
In 1837 the churchyard had some pleasant walks along the sides, bounded by a low wooden fence, and skirted with trees.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell