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Significados de dragonfly (dragonflies) en inglés
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 "darning needle"
Examples for "darning needle"
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Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
2
Why, I turned away three score of them with a darning needle.
3
Using kitchen string or unwaxed dental floss, thread a large darning needle.
4
Spinning wheel, loom, and darning needle were to lie idle that day.
5
He held up the slim, steel darning needle to the light.
1
One of my pets, after plying her mother with about forty questions, wound up with, Mother, how does the devil's darning needle sleep?
1
She vaulted to her feet, pricking her finger on her sewing needle.
2
The twins might already have a sewing needle and disinfectant, but this was Italy.
3
They used to tattoo each other with a sewing needle dipped in black ink.
4
An imaginary sewing needle turned slowly in the wound, producing a cold flare of pain.
5
One of the women picked up a sewing needle and gripped it like a weapon.
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Down South the colored people believe the dragon fly brings dead snakes to life, and they call it snake doctor.
2
They believed that the presence of dragonflies, which they called snake doctors, meant a serpent lay nearby.
3
Snake 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."
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For this reason it is sometimes called mosquito hawk.
Uso de dragonflies en inglés
1
The walls were covered with cocoons; moths and dragonflies were pinned everywhere.
2
Half a dozen airplanes circled like dragonflies up there in the blue.
3
Flies buzzed hungrily, along with foot-long dragonflies and other less familiar insects.
4
She wants dragonflies, moths, butterflies, and he-thebanker, I mean-wants everything Indian.
5
Do I think that dragonflies are already being used in the United States?
6
I started with the earrings: No, I said, the earrings are small dragonflies.
7
I remember dragonflies in the sugar bowl, dragonflies in the honey.
8
While fishing at the Round Valley Reservoir he stopped to watch some dragonflies.
9
Tialys and Salmakia mounted their dragonflies and held them quivering on the ground.
10
What I remember most about the dragonflies is how he didn't get it.
11
A stream of dragonflies made for them at once, and the men faltered.
12
Just beyond it, very large helicopters hover like monstrous dragonflies over an airstrip.
13
The walls were lined thickly with gaudy butterflies, dragonflies, and moths.
14
It featured brilliantly coloured dragonflies, pointed downward, like a winged bombs.
15
Butterflies were scarce, but dragonflies darted along like sparks of fire.
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No, dragonflies, as large as seagulls, which had been waiting in the darkness.
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