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Meanings of firefly in English
1941 Fighter-reconnaissance aircraft family by Fairey.
Related terms
Portuguese
pirilampo Synonyms
Examples for "lightning bug"
Examples for "lightning bug"
1
This makes him remember a certain kind of lightning bug in Penang.
2
It spun away toward the Hufflepuff grandstand like a supercharged lightning bug.
3
Comparing Sarah to the others was like comparing lightning to the lightning bug.
4
You know what a firefly or lightning bug is like, don't you, Horatio?
5
Eve zeroed in on another lightning bug and caught it between her cupped palms.
Usage of firefly in English
1
For a second time, he heard the echoing voice of the firefly.
2
A good deal has been said of the firefly and of phosphorescence.
3
I peered in the jar and sure enough, a firefly it was.
4
No, no; I've seen many a glow-worm and firefly-nothingof that sort.
5
She followed the firefly, which, like herself, was seeking the way out.
6
He threw down his club and begged the firefly to spare him.
7
On the third exhale, a blue firefly popped out and flew away.
8
The dusk was deepening and an occasional firefly flickered over the ditches.
9
A firefly dimly illuminated a pair of octospiders in a single heap.
10
A firefly can't hold his light long enough to compete with it.
11
Crandall's cigarette glowed like a large, peaceable firefly in the summer darkness.
12
In the darkness a pipe glows like a firefly, wanes, glows again.
13
He only laughed in the dream picture and ran on after the firefly.
14
Long after the firefly disappeared, the traces of its light remained within me.
15
They could read the great Morse-code flashes which flickered like a distant firefly:
16
After its release the free ATP was measured using the firefly luciferase reaction.
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Translations for firefly
Russian
Portuguese
Catalan
Firefly through the time
Firefly across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common