Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
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Examples for "dragonfly"
Examples for "dragonfly"
1We visited Avondale House in Wicklow and enjoyed the dragonfly nature reserve.
2VandenBrooks said tracheal volume may be tied to prehistoric dragonfly body size.
3The wings split like dragonfly gossamers, poised for increased maneuvering and power.
4The thought came and went like a dragonfly skimming the river's surface.
5An angry dragonfly shape passed overhead as the first Apache took aim.
1Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
2Why, I turned away three score of them with a darning needle.
3Using kitchen string or unwaxed dental floss, thread a large darning needle.
4Spinning wheel, loom, and darning needle were to lie idle that day.
5He held up the slim, steel darning needle to the light.
1One of my pets, after plying her mother with about forty questions, wound up with, Mother, how does the devil's darning needle sleep?
1She vaulted to her feet, pricking her finger on her sewing needle.
2The twins might already have a sewing needle and disinfectant, but this was Italy.
3They used to tattoo each other with a sewing needle dipped in black ink.
4An imaginary sewing needle turned slowly in the wound, producing a cold flare of pain.
5One of the women picked up a sewing needle and gripped it like a weapon.
1Down South the colored people believe the dragon fly brings dead snakes to life, and they call it snake doctor.
2They believed that the presence of dragonflies, which they called snake doctors, meant a serpent lay nearby.
3Snake doctors, limber, long insects with bronze bodies and filmy wings, went back and forth like small living shuttles.
4"I tell you what," observed Geary; "get some court-plaster at the snake doctor's just above here."
1For this reason it is sometimes called mosquito hawk.
Translations for snake feeder