Example Sentences

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Every few years, a fashion gimmick sweeps locustlike out of Paris onto the fields of fad.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the locustlike swarm of the enemy never stopped.

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 Wilson, Harry Leon