cicadas
- plural of cicada.
Example Sentences
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Some individuals compare the noise to cicadas or even a passing freight train, Price said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Outdoors, the yard is alive with 17-year cicadas who are generating an increasingly eerie background hum while cheerful daytime television hosts lightly suggest ways to turn the situation into a positive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
It was like an hour and a half of trying to get Leslie’s side of that and she just had to stay focused while there were frogs, cicadas and a party boat—
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025
All they can see is leafy tree tops and hear is the echoes of cicadas and birds bouncing off the cliffs.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
Only the sounds of the marsh answered, croaking frogs and singing cicadas.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
