lightning bug
noun
lightning bugs
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pluralof lightning bug.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Come nightfall, capturing the lightning bugs during the few hours they appear each evening takes stamina and perseverance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
One fuzzy blink after another — and always just an inch from the grasp of sticky fingers — the lightning bugs begin to fill the air.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
But these beloved, bioluminescent insects, also known as lightning bugs, are in trouble.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 1, 2023
She sees their childhood in such direct contrast to her own growing up in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she would search for four-leaf clovers and catch lightning bugs to put them on her ear.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
I remembered die summers with lightning bugs and honeysuckle smells; the cold winters when the fields would all be brown and would crackle under my feet I didn't remember too much else.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
