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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "butterfly" in a sentence

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    butterfly


    1. Trichogramma Minutum and T Pretiosum: These are a minute egg parasite that destroy the eggs of most injurious pests such as the bollworm, cotton leafworm and various borers, hornworm, codling moth, and all moths and butterfly eggs


    2. butterfly wings fluttered in their thousands over the future-distant space of Beijing


    3. I ate and drank with a butterfly stomach


    4. "They won't expect much from me after this," Glenelle said, "I set up that big old cherub I had with my butterfly flipper personification and worked up all the nuances I could think of into it


    5. Cells coalesced as notes in the song combined, water formed as notes tumbled over cosmic cliff edges, and proverbial butterfly wings fluttered in their thousands over the future-distant space of Beijing


    6. curl by her face, a butterfly wing amid the chaos


    7. like the wings of a butterfly caught in the light


    8. the covers, cleaned his head wound and used butterfly Band-Aids on the open tear


    9. Just as the caterpillar devours the plant it will return as a butterfly to pollenate, the Livingsons utilized and nurtured the forest, the mountains, the meadows and the waters


    10. ‘Mind you,’ he went on as if to prove my point, ‘you’re not secure on a couple of the notes in the middle of the Madame Butterfly aria

    11. Monica, on the other hand, was crying over spilt milk, as the imps had littered her bedroom with spilt-over milk cartons, as her father Byron tried to catch the blighters with a butterfly net


    12. Like a fallen butterfly it sounded, awash with a single cool sad note of great antiquity


    13. It stood around four foot high, the butterfly shaped double blades at least eighteen inches wide


    14. butterfly wings but the Fixer knew the boy wasn't


    15. So say the proponents of chaos theory, who use 'the butterfly effect' to describe how simple and apparently straightforward processes can combine and set in motion a chain of events with far-reaching and unpredictable consequences


    16. He suggests employing specialist butterfly death squads to go around armed with big nets and long range rifles


    17. Above all, Professor Spanners insists that we cannot afford to suffer a single butterfly to live - one careless flap of a wing could mean the end of all life on the planet


    18. In an interview with Newsweek, a former associate claims that Professor Spanners' present militant stance against the butterfly world is the result of childhood trauma, which she traces back to being dive-bombed by a red admiral on a family picnic


    19. To demonstrate what he means by this, he gives an example of how an earthquake in China could ultimately cause a butterfly to flap its wings in Central Park


    20. A butterfly flitted past

    21. The butterfly fixed him with its tiny cat-like eyes in its micro-feline face


    22. It wasn't a particularly friendly butterfly


    23. around the world and tumbled a butterfly in Fiji


    24. The directive described the significance of – what humans would term – the butterfly effect: how a small action can eventually have massive consequences that not even the wisest elder could anticipate


    25. death experiences or a lost butterfly in a hailstorm


    26. Keela was dressed in a pretty white princess-style dress with a pale pink ribbon around the waist and a pink butterfly clip in her hair


    27. “The sun gave them to us,” the first butterfly called as they fluttered away on a blaze of colour


    28. And for one brief moment, just as the moth was swallowed by the bright hot flame, the small creature’s wings burnt as bright as any butterfly that would ever exist


    29. With blue jeans, high-heeled boots and a sequined blue butterfly blouse, I felt like a movie queen


    30. Amongst the heather and the wild flowers roamed a family of wildcats, the mountain hare and the marsh fritillary butterfly

    31. “Heeeey Butterfly, I’m so proud of you baby


    32. “Nothing on this planet could’ve kept me away my little butterfly, nothing


    33. He ran in front of them or behind them, constantly chasing a left, a straw, or a butterfly


    34. Her sister was a local celebrity, a true social butterfly and like all such members of that species, she flitted around the city, never alighting in any one place for very long


    35. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!


    36. free will and concentration, the sky, the butterfly, a single


    37. My knees weakening, I stumble and fall on a pot of butterfly weed, the orange scent flooding my nostrils


    38. ” His voice comes out softer than a whisper, and his lips on the back of my neck, touch my skin as gently as a butterfly


    39. John, with a glass of whiskey in his hand, strolls past the potted butterfly palm as he comes in my direction


    40. With the bright sunlight shining through the high windows, the two cream sofas casually placed, wide coffee table set on the African rug, and a couple of potted butterfly palms on either side, the room feels as if the outside is inside

    41. butterfly trapped in her lower abdomen


    42. butterfly trying to escape


    43. the butterfly wings brushing against him, inside


    44. The feeling of butterfly wings inside was quickly


    45. Diving Bell and the Butterfly


    46. with no chance to be a butterfly ever again


    47. Emma was like a butterfly floating around the room


    48. Nurturing it-with the smooth voice and sensation-of a butterfly


    49. "Goddamn car," Bates said to himself, "paid seven grand green dollars and the frapping horn sounds like a butterfly fart


    50. That Shawn was even on the one-hour operation within five klicks of Saigon was because the trusting Sergeant Vashro had met the famous actor's son in the Butterfly Bar on Tu Do a few nights before the incident and had casually agreed to take him out on a close-in patrol





































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    Synonyms for "butterfly"

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    "butterfly" definitions

    diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings


    a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down


    flutter like a butterfly


    cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking


    talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions