Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

These people, insect-like, and with no faces, seem cartoonish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

In the video, a headless, insect-like robot roughly the size of a large dog with a colorful exterior scrambles over rocks, climbs stairs and appears to dance, flashing green lights.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024

In Helldivers 2, you're a member of a team of soldiers dropped on to an alien planet and tasked with surviving attacks from waves of giant, insect-like creatures.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

They must pick them out from the general din by their insect-like hum—we explain to them that these are far more dangerous than the big ones that can be heard long beforehand.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque