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

The frijolito or coral-bean is a small, slender narrow-headed tree, with persistent, locust-like leaves, fragrant violet-blue flowers, and small one-sided racemes.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen