comma butterfly

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noun

an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing

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Words nearby comma butterfly

comix, coml., comm., comma, comma bacillus, comma butterfly, Commack, comma fault, Commager, command, commandant

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How to use comma butterfly in a sentence

“When you become a peshmerga your life becomes like a butterfly,” she said.
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So, to commemorate her 75th birthday, the two got matching butterfly tattoos on their wrists.
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A small wooden cabinet with two butterfly doors held ropes and chains, candles, and sex toys.
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The labels included a picture of a butterfly on a blade of grass.
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She became my sweetheart, temporarily; but a born butterfly, she soon fluttered away, leaving me disconsolate—for a time!
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It was bordered by trees for almost its entire length on both sides, and it was shaped like a enormous, elongated comma.
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Page 229 Chapter X a comma was inserted in the phrase 'he would secure the competence he had yearned for, for so many years'.
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Out by the hill, a butterfly, snow white, rested a moment on the young girl's hair.
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In Leeming-street it was in the chrysalis state; in Fishergate the butterfly epoch has been reached.
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