Sentence examples for clouds of insects from inspiring English sources

We walked through unspectacular woods bothered by clouds of insects.

As we walk through the forest, clouds of insects rise like fairies around our feet: flies, aphids, moths.

Sweeping across North America, flying hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts were once an awesome and horrifying sight, huge glittering clouds of insects laying waste countless acres of crops.

Now they all sat talking on the terrace in an evening light as thick as syrup; clouds of insects swarmed above the Japanese water features, swallows slipped close along the earth, a blackbird sang.

You may see only vast and vaguely-menacing clouds of insects, but as we watch them turn to slime on our windscreens, it's worth considering the life-or-death enormity of this entomological D-day.

As clouds of insects hovered around the kerosene lamps, the general declaimed that he just split from the South's main rebel group, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and that his new force would be the one to carry southerners, at last, to their independent destiny.

As I work my way through the thickest growth, a cloud of insects rises around me.

He slaps at the cloud of insects as though he is killing a dragon in a Knights of the Round Table epic.

But the sudden cloud of insects also draws fish in to feed, the insect colonies reform within weeks or months, and high winter flows on the river can rearrange and smooth out the gravel piles.

Outside, the light on the earth was now a pale, thin yellow darkened with moving shadow; the clouds of moving insects alternately thickened and lightened, like driving rain.

Clouds of the insects, large and dense enough to be seen by satellite, ride 50 miles or more a day in the arid wind.