Etymology
Origin of insectile
Example Sentences
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Correspondents roamed the convention floor while wearing headsets with insectile antennae.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2018
You have to time your taps as squares of light whoosh pass, an insectile drummer skidding and grinding through turns or raising your beetle wings to graze rings.
From Time • Oct. 5, 2016
Dick Veit, a researcher with the College of Staten Island, discovered a colony of 60 adult grasshopper sparrows, named for their insectile song, at Freshkills last summer.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016
Even better than a Hollywood superstar was the spectacle of Prince, who came onstage in huge insectile sunglasses, with a crown of hair and wielding a slick-looking cane.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015
Without a moon, they see only what the insectile headlamps illuminate: fifteen feet of granular, ice-blue surface, crisscrossed by tire tracks.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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