Sentence examples for butterfly from inspiring English sources

Killing starfish is akin to swatting a locust storm with a butterfly net.

The earliest-known depictions are of the eyed hawkmoth and the peacock butterfly in Pyrenees cave paintings.

This time, filming on a tight budget in Hungary, Strickland borrowed butterfly collections from Budapest's museum of natural history and then faced a big decision: should he hire expert advice from a dominatrix or a lepidopterist?

A butterfly passes in the quavering grace of its flight.

Ideology has the capacity to make a butterfly out of a grub.

I dragged my toddlers away from CBeebies to witness this spectacle and Ted, who is 18 months old, pointed and cried "ba-wa-wee!" (toddlerese for butterfly).

There has only ever been one British sighting of this butterfly from eastern Europe, in 1953, so last year's invasion of several dozen was astonishing.

The butterfly prefers very cold winters and we weren't sure if any would survive our mild season.

Usually found between China and eastern Europe, an unprecedented migration of this large, mobile butterfly last summer saw at least 30 sightings in Britain, mainly concentrated in Norfolk but also as far north as Tyneside and west to Devon.

And when melody and sweeter notes do break out, it's like seeing a butterfly emerge from a dust storm.

People often come just to see a specific animal and some spend weeks in search of one particular species of bird or butterfly.