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Meanings of dead insects in English

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Usage of dead insects in English
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In the showroom, stalactites of dead insects cluster on strips of flypaper.
Wired
2
On one leaf there were nine dead insects, besides a few still alive.
Insectivorous Plants
3
The three bullets hovered, glittering, and, like dead insects, fell at their feet.
The Illustrated Man
4
On opening the stomach of the humming-bird dead insects are almost always found there.
Wanderings in South America
5
None resembled dead insects, parts of plants, or anything else the Trailheaders could remember.
Anthill: a novel
6
Huge silken spiderwebs spanned the corners, many of them peppered with trapped, dead insects.
Toxic
7
In the gas light, the ink stains on the writing desk looked like dead insects.
Melnitz
8
Old fluorescent strips and even older incandescent bulbs speckled with dead insects flickered into life.
Coalition's End
9
Above her was a naked lightbulb, some dead insects, a low beam covered in cobwebs.
East of the sun
10
Maya was almost congealed with fright: the floor was strewn with the bodies of dead insects.
The Adventures of Maya the Bee
11
But now he felt as if the air were no longer a pile of dead insects.
Dayworld Breakup
12
The only unusual things revealed by Butlers investigations were small clusters of dead insects and spiders.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
13
A film of dead insects coats the lamps.
A Sport and a Pastime
14
There is no pain in classifying dead insects.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
15
Hans sees a lampshade covered with dead insects.
The eye of the leopard
16
Flies swarmed through the hospital where nurses tended to crying children and dead insects littered the floors.
Reuters
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common