Use "praying mantis" in a sentence

1. Praying Mantis: The Chinese mantis was first introduced into the United States in 1896

2. ‘The praying mantis strikes

3. I always wanted to use a glass jar to be able to see what we caught, since watching praying mantises and lightning bugs in a tin can just didn’t cut it

4. There was no mistaking his resemblance to a praying mantis

5. Worms help to aerate the soil, praying mantis seek out a variety of “bad insects,” and butterflies and bees help pollinate

6. reminded me somewhat of a praying mantis

7. The teacher, who looms in my memory like an airy-fairy praying mantis, pronounced my pants to be insufficiently flexible for the exercises we’d be doing

8. ’ He took his broken wrist radio from his pocket like a dead praying mantis

9. For almost seventy years I had heard her promise this to the boy, boy-man, man, man-grasshopper and the now livid male praying mantis that he was, pushing his eternally cold and furwrapped woman past the hotel verandas where, in another age, paper fans had fluttered like Oriental butterflies in the hands of basking ladies