wasp
noun
any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
wasplike
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a word derived from
wasp.
Example Sentences
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Dior’s corsets were of lighter construction, but their nickname, “waspies,” underlined their goal to pinch women’s waists to wasplike insignificance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2016
A hot, throttle-busting flyer, Quesada won his wings in 1925, studied engineering, learned to pilot every plane from wasplike pursuits to lumbering amphibians.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were wasplike, thorax and abdomen joined in narrow waists, wings like blades, and stingers longer than a child’s arm.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Telemachus thought how strangely out of place was the actor's anæmic wasplike figure in this huge kitchen where everything was dark, strong-smelling, massive.
From Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos
Now the watchers saw it, slipping through some tenuous higher cloud-banks that had begun to gather, a lean, swift, wasplike speedster: one of the Air Control Board's—the A.C.B.'s—most rapid aerial police planes.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
