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.
locustlike
-
a word derived from
locust.
Example Sentences
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But the locustlike swarm of the enemy never stopped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every few years, a fashion gimmick sweeps locustlike out of Paris onto the fields of fad.
From Time Magazine Archive
In passing the Pulcifer ranch they made talk about the hay-cutting, for a reaper sent its locustlike click from a brown stretch of bottom land.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson
