locust
noun
any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
locust-like
-
a word derived from
locust.
Example Sentences
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People who were living in the D.C. area in 2004 likely remember the swarms of red-eyed locust-like creatures flying around everywhere and their discarded shells crunching underfoot.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
Despite a locust-like appearance, they neither bite nor sting nor devastate vegetation.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the bag for Ray Cooper, a percussionist, is removed from the display case, its ownership is contested by a woman dressed in a Saint Laurent original who loudly protests Elton's locust-like purchasing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unsatisfied appetite for news during the strike is reflected by a locust-like attack on anything printed.
From Time Magazine Archive
POETRY, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE294 To see me, thou would'st think the saintly Baṣrite, Ḥasan, or else Qatáda, met thy gaze,529 So do I deck humility with leanness, While yellow, locust-like, my cheek o'erlays.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
