Synonym: dirt ball, louse, worm. Similar words: in secret, sector, insert, consecutive, section, in season, in search of, inspector. Meaning: ['ɪnsekt] n. 1. small air-breathing arthropod 2. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect.
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121. If your child becomes interested in insects, encourage her to focus on a particular insect.
122. His sprawl makes me seem like a silent, precise insect.
123. When I was young I was like a stick insect, then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.
124. They put the insect into a tin with a perforated lid.
125. Women worried about the cosmetic effects of insect bites on the face make up a significant proportion of those seeking medical assistance.
126. The cedar lining that once protected fine cigars from deteriorating is equally efficacious at preserving cardboard rectangles from insect damage.
127. Just one insect in fifty lives in such a way, but those that take up a shared existence may flourish.
128. They climbed not over but through the sun-red grass, among the awakened insect movement and the light ablaze.
129. Taken with other environmental indicators, such as land snail shells and insect remains, they also give information about the prevailing climate.
130. Out of the drone of insect life around us I could distinguish the sound of an aeroplane engine.
131. There are still a great many unknown insect species in the world.
132. Those alarmed by insect life should consider holidaying in Skegness.
133. Rot in Timber Timber decay which is not owed to insect action is normally the result of fungal attack.
134. Horton picked the spider up, held it in his palm and asked if the insect was bothering anyone.
135. Unprotected by a shell,(www.Sentencedict.com) they are easy meat for insect larvae and flatworms.
136. Although their names make them sound like large predators, they are actually tiny insect larvae.
137. And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
138. She was hanging back with him, pretending to be interested in some insect on a berry plant.
139. Most baculoviruses have one feature that is unique to insect viruses - they produce occlusion bodies in which the virions are embedded.
140. Entomologists, nutritionists and other insect fanciers scoff at Westerners' bias against bugs.
141. I never went out without my insect repellent and waterproof sunblock.
142. For example, we might imagine a population of unpalatable, but cryptic, insect larvae.
143. The insect population of a single large tussock has been estimated at more than 1,000 individuals.
144. Pesticide residues, exposure to chemicals at toxic-waste sites, food additives, bird and insect droppings.
145. The insect life of the leaves and grass was stilled.
146. Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours.
147. Beneficial predators: Insect allies that kill off pests like aphids.
148. So use a good insect repellent and remember to keep re-applying it.
149. One wooden jetty crept out over the water on brittle insect legs.
150. This elegant insect is a formidable greenfly guzzler and its larvae are particularly good at exterminating these ubiquitous pests.
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