Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.
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Examples for "June bug"
Examples for "June bug"
1Let's not forget, Eve Blackwell was as crazy as a June bug.
2He turned away discreetly, and snapped up a plump June bug.
3You can't fool me now-andI'm crazy as a June bug!
4Why, just as Washington says, we've been swallowed up like a duck gobbling a June bug.
5He felt as if he were a June bug buzzing helplessly at the end of a string.
1Suddenly some May bugs flew in through the window, but no one noticed them.
2To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.
1While I was writing this paper the chief enemy of the strawberry came blundering and bumping about my lamp-theMay beetle.
2It also eats a small amount of newly planted corn, but at the same time clears the field of May beetles.
1Her vivacity was as disturbing as the incessant buzzing of a June beetle.
2Well, then, what right have I, an entire stranger, to come blundering along like a June beetle and disturb your rest?
3I lighted my lamp, and, with the June beetles butting at my head, I wrote all night.
4If you have half the horror of those great June beetles that she has, you will know how she jumped.
5On the screens of the open windows the June beetles knock their heads, like theologues who wish they could get in.
6June beetles, coloured like emeralds, spun loudly through the stillness, which had in it an almost human quality of hushed and expectant waiting.