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"Locust" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The locust made a big jump.
That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!
That's not a locust, that's a grasshopper!
The Spanish word "langosta" can mean either "lobster" or "locust".
And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail.
A massive locust outbreak continues threatening farmers’ fields in East Africa.
The largest locust outbreak in human history occurred in 1875 in the United States.
Locust swarms can number up to several billion individuals. They form "flying clouds", covering an area that can extend up to a thousand square kilometers.
More than a year after a locust plague was declared in Madagascar, a control program finally is about to begin. Massive swarms of the insects have damaged or destroyed large areas of cropland and pastures.
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is procuring a fleet of new aircraft it hopes will have the record desert locust swarms that have plagued East Africa under control by the end of the year.
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Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.
I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.
This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain, The hardest, cruellest people in the world, Come locusting upon us, eat us up, Confiscate lands, goods, money […]
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