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Origin of snapping beetle
First recorded in 1865–70
Words nearby snapping beetle
snap pea,
snapped,
snapper,
snapperback,
snapper up,
snapping beetle,
snapping shrimp,
snapping turtle,
snappish,
snappy,
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How to use snapping beetle in a sentence
They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.
In 2007, FWS reported that the beetle outbreak had affected only 16 percent of the whitebark pines.
The Beetle was launched with a series of television commercials unlike any before them.
Emil Axelsson recreates the classic melody using only his fingers and their super-snapping abilities.
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
But strangest of all the dishes at the Tagal's feast was one prepared from a kind of beetle.
Suddenly the audience was startled by the snapping of a string; the violin and bow dropped from the nerveless hands of the player.
Then the juice would fill up the hole the beetle had made, and the tree would go on growing as before.
For in my opinion it was no more damaged for defence than a brick wall would be by a boy's snapping marbles against it.
British Dictionary definitions for snapping beetle
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