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Grasshopper
"Grasshopper" in a Sentence (15 examples)
A grasshopper and many ants lived in a field.
That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!
That's not a locust, that's a grasshopper!
That's the biggest grasshopper I've ever seen.
The grasshopper chirps.
I love the sound this grasshopper makes!
At this moment his soliloquy was interrupted by a grasshopper, which, in springing from a swallow that pursued it, fell into Chloe's bosom.
The grasshopper chirped from her bosom, as if in gratitude for its deliverance, and Chloe on hearing it screamed again; whereupon Daphnis laughed, and took the little chatterer from its hiding-place.
The grasshopper kept chirping in his hand.
Chloe was pleased at seeing the innocent cause of her alarm, and having kissed it, she put the grasshopper in her bosom again, where it resumed its song.
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Even in my happiest moments, while the grass was crowded with flowers beneath me—the sweet monotony of the running water in mine ear, only broken by the cheerful chant of the grasshopper—the boughs of the chestnut, filled with sunshine, dazzling my eyes, till the golden air seemed thronged with lovely shapes,—even then came pale and mournful shadows, whose white faces looked upon me pityingly.
But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
Does he order Scotch-on-the-rocks in a low, mean voice? No? A Bud? No? A grasshopper, heavy on the creme de menthe? Right!
Although we don't know exactly why Li is chosen to dance, we witness a man assuring officials that the child isn't from bourgeois stock. Phew. There are no known landowners in the family, so the grasshopper passes some cultural purity test, in a state often fixated on class warfare, driven by the cult of personality, and bullied by paranoia.
John Geib […]patented the hopper with two separate escapements, one of which soon became adopted in the grasshopper of the square piano
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