Sentence Examples

1. She looks like a beetle, and a harmless one at that.
2. She marches on ahead, her lurid green kaftan blowing in the breeze, the most business-like beetle there ever was.
3. The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
4. He approached the freeway, intersecting some slow old man in a beetle.
5. Driving a peg, with great nicety, into the ground, at the precise spot where the beetle fell, my friend now produced from his pocket a tape measure.
6. Guatiza is home to the prickly pear, farmed for its fruit and for the cochineal beetle, the source of the much-coveted dye.
7. The one holding him down peered around another for a better look when something barreled through the surrounding guards and swat him aside like a beetle.
8. They were about an inch wide, two inches long and appeared to be a cross between a beetle and a cockroach.
9. A crunchy little black beetle was quickly dispatched before he squeezed himself through a small hole in the wall of the next tent.
10. For this reason I swung the beetle, and for this reason I let it fall it from the tree.