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    Use "beetle" in a sentence

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    1. The beetle man whimpers


    2. Traps: Japanese Beetle Traps are a pheromone (a natural insect attractant) that attracts females and traps them for disposal


    3. The beetle got the edge of the box but could not


    4. that this particular species of beetle could fly


    5. The beetle slowly crept toward the mole, not


    6. but what words would he use? “A beetle crawled into my


    7. mole,” or perhaps, “There's a beetle that's traveling down


    8. That fifty cent word was in response to the beetle


    9. Soffen slapped her paw on the ground, giving a grunt of satisfaction as she caught a beetle scuttling from beneath a nearby stone


    10. First, he had some thinking to do, and there was always the question of that large beetle!

    11. Failing to find one, he tutted in frustration, listening instead to the sounds of the forest– the rustling leaves, the shrill 'ke-wick' of a tawny owl, the steady tap of a wood boring beetle searching for food


    12. “Somewhere in the world a ‘73 Volkswagon Super Beetle is missing its seat-covers,” he told Oberon’s companion, a semi-attractive female cop, with a little blonde pony tail hanging out of the back of her hat and thin wisps of hair falling out from under it


    13. rustle and there appeared a huge black beetle


    14. At one point the beetle flipped over, struggled to get up, and did


    15. She mentioned the beetle that had been visiting my Hochaka and


    16. A large black beetle stood behind it, antennae waving back and forth


    17. “What you need to do, is find a candle,” the beetle concluded slowly


    18. “And where will I find this candle of which you speak, beetle?”


    19. The beetle clattered open its wing cases, pointing with one of its thin, diaphanous wings


    20. So saying the beetle scuttled off towards a large hole in the ground and disappeared, leaving the moth alone with its sadness once more

    21. That night the moth flew in the direction the beetle had pointed out to it and came upon an old cottage


    22. Startled to see that she was middle-aged, Berthille courteously vacated the front seat of the Volkswagen beetle and sat in the back, giving the older woman more space in the passenger seat beside me


    23. beetle car been seen, or the guard would be a believer, and pretend that he had not


    24. They also have a large, shiny hump like a beetle on their backs


    25. I spotted a lonely old red Volkswagen Beetle


    26. I didn't have anything with me; I had left the backpack in the Beetle


    27. I got out of the car and stood there, waiting for the Beetle to move


    28. "Up it, Sergeant of the Green Beanie Army Spears, you beetle cruncher


    29. With a gasp of fright she turned around and saw a small black beetle moving across the cement floor


    30. Lorna smiled when she realized that it was a beetle called a toktokkie because of the sound it makes whilst apparently calling for a mate

    31. The beetle must have found the mate it was looking for and the two of them were most probably happily tapping off together into the wild blue yonder


    32. A beetle scurried across the floor and over his hand


    33. Volkswagens were finally in limited production again, and if you were indecently wealthy you could put in your order for the brand new Beetle with the small divided oval rear window


    34. Horst had advanced to a new VW Beetle with a split oval rear window while Peter now owned a brand new bicycle which he had earned by producing in-store advertising for various stores and transforming plain bars into fanciful African kraals with secluded hideaways


    35. The town must have turned into a giant beetle shelter


    36. possessed by a dung beetle and was now having dreams about pushing a


    37. She feels hot and thirsty; the back of her throat feels like it has a giant beetle in it


    38. The dung beetle rolls his ball, which is a


    39. As he arrived in the small town he parked his VW Beetle on the Main Street and found a small café where he ordered coffee and a sandwich


    40. Quiros let the car disappear along the driveway before he parked his Beetle by a clump of trees and walked back to the entrance of the plantation

    41. Quiros stopped once to fill up the Beetle and buy a sandwich


    42. When he changed the bridge back to transparent mode, Dave was face to face with a monstrous, floating skull, of God knows what, that was about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle


    43. Like a rusty beetle, the half track lurched across the landscape, slipping into a muck hole, tracks churning as the machine settled into the goo, caught and slammed forward, motor groaning to settle back into its slow progression


    44. What could best come close to describing this machine, was a beetle with two sharp ovals so close to its flanks they seemed to be one, and claw like structures curving out of almost all the creases


    45. The proverbial ass of the beetle had four round rockets spewing out orange flames


    46. Once a beetle flew in and battered around the room before drying out and dying,


    47. There‘s a baseball coach by the name of Beetle Bailey who understood the vast importance and power of focus


    48. Safe to cross? She thought so and in second gear ventured her yellow Beetle onto a viaduct it had crossed many times since Sir Alex had gifted it to her four years earlier


    49. He stood by Peg and trained his underwater camera on the Beetle as it rotated in the breeze, both doors hanging open like the pectoral fins on a floundering dolphin


    50. Let’s assume it got a little help, in which case the beetle could have gone into the water anytime before the timbers were disintegrated and that would leave the field wide open













































    1. Then there is the beetled look of a gorilla, an armored beetle: almost modern in its sick inhuman automobile sleekness


    1. Japanese Beetles love poor dead soil since their natural enemies are not present


    2. Milky spore disease is highly effective against this and most beetles


    3. Curious little beetles clambered across the mountainous hard core following the unfamiliar animal scents, blood dried and stiff, sweat exuded during the long afternoon hours still pungent in the evening air


    4. Matai fell with a thud and the beetles began to swarm over his body immediately


    5. Matai was twisting and turning, scrambling to keep the beetles from his head


    6. About as much as we do for the thoughts of beetles


    7. Beetles, spiders, and what have you, they all tend to gather there, because it’s always dry


    8. for they will be observing beetles


    9. names they were bestowing upon their beetles


    10. the sound of the Beetles singing ‘Good bye

    11. From the bodies of the rats came beetles


    12. The night before that I was surrounded by scuttling beetles, huge ones


    13. Back in the early days of the Volkswagen beetles


    14. There were pirate parts lying everywhere—legs, tattooed arms, ears with earrings attached—and all beginning to attract scavengers: buzzards and crows, foxes and raccoons, ants and beetles


    15. I do not know but I heard VW Beetles were also used right in the beginning


    16. Black liquid oozed from one pile of putrefying flesh, running across the floor to collect in a dark pool, busily attended by carrion beetles


    17. He'd been out hunting beetles by a large tumble of rocks when the Talisman hanging about his neck had flashed brightly, reflecting the moonlight into his eyes with a piercing intensity


    18. beetles that had come into my Hochaka


    19. movements, and poured the beetles out into the grass between


    20. beetles and other insects that happened to wander its way along

    21. beetles, ants and wasps that were surely participating in the


    22. When all was ready, Jarek and Zeno put on their pouches, took their plates and one for Melvin, then joined the others who’d taken their food and the lamps into the recreation room to escape from moths and huge beetles that were buzzing everywhere, attracted by the lights


    23. The beetles seemed to fill the room in seconds, as if they were watching what was going on, and in the corner a sudden movement took place


    24. Fluttering moths and night beetles


    25. Spiders, ants, beetles, moths butterflies went about their business with not so much as a glance at him


    26. The only sound a low buzzing emitted by large brown and green beetles flying through the flames as if it was a game


    27. Hundreds of black dung beetles crawl out of its neck


    28. Rugged, looking down at the beetles escaping in all directions, says “Yeah, that was pretty sick


    29. "I wanted to call it Tokyo Rose and the Japanese Beetles


    30. Grief The Aphids And Beetles

    31. Úrsula, almost blind at the time, was the only person who was sufficiently calm to identify the nature of that determined wind and she left the sheets to the mercy of the light as she watched Remedios the Beauty waving good-bye in the midst of the flapping sheets that rose up with her, abandoning with her the environment of beetles and dahlias and passing through the air with her as four o’clock in the afternoon came to an end, and they were lost forever with her in the upper atmosphere where not even the highest-flying birds of memory could reach her


    32. All the hip stuff, The Beetles, and Carnaby Street, was to him, just stuff


    33. many flying bugs and beetles


    34. Instead we reacquainted ourselves with the unfeasibly steep hotel stairs and our balcony, where had we been a giraffe-necked stag beetle we might just have glimpsed the sea, standing on each other’s shoulders (if stag beetles have shoulders)


    35. Mostly goose fat and crushed beetles, it was a thick, grayish white


    36. ‘Ben, you haven’t sold any of the crystal scarab beetles lately, have you?’


    37. ‘You could put the scarab beetles in the lockable display case


    38. She took the scarab beetles from the box and held them out on her palm in front of the now


    39. scarab beetles, was an embarrassment


    40. He believed he was hearing the footsteps of beetles marching on the fence behind him

    41. The comment below fits the type of firefly beetles seen by me during


    42. As he would open his window for fresh air and sunlight, members of the world of nature would visit him: butterflies, beetles and other insects


    43. – ants, beetles, caterpillars, lizards, hedgehogs and


    44. Did horses feel more than humans? Beetles more than horses?


    45. “Some beetles carry a poison on their bellies, but they


    46. For example, why cannot “people” or many other animals fly like birds? Maybe because they don’t have wings? No, of course not! It is because specific Configurations of Self-Consciousnesses of Proto-Forms of birds (as well as those of butterflies, bees, wasps, bumble-bees, flies, mosquitos, locusts, beetles and many other insects) have synthesized Aspects of such two dominant Qualities as ALL-Love-ALL-Wisdom and ALL-Unity, which automatically form around their Forms of manifestation such “curvature” of Space-Time that considerably decreases the influence of gravitational Forces on their mass, and the fact that they have wings allows them to regulate these unique abilities at their discretion (that is why nestlings with undeveloped wings fall to the earth)


    47. A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body


    48. To denote what? Bringing new generations of beetles emerging from a ball of dung


    49. ground, but dry rot and beetles have gotten to some of its bigger


    50. Squeezed from a tire, from the occasional car, a stone is fired into soft silver grass, where patient beetles loosening their bows, latch away their legs and toes




































    1. The beetling head of the cliff projected over the cane-brake


    2. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, black and formidable


    3. The dull red walls, the beetling roof, the narrow pointed windows and low, arched door; the quaint Dutch weathercock, and odd-shaped tower—aye, even the bell within, no bigger than a doll's thimble—and upon all a sentimental traveler in the person of a china figure perhaps three inches in height, is gazing half pensively, half curiously, as we suppose, at this relic of by-gone years!


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    Synonyms for "beetle"

    beetle mallet overhang beetling project over jut out protrude stick out insect

    "beetle" definitions

    insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings


    a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing


    be suspended over or hang over


    fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle


    beat with a beetle


    jutting or overhanging