Sentence examples for small fly from inspiring English sources

It derives from the word "midge", meaning a small fly.

In its saliva, the small fly injects a protozoan that it picks up from feasting on another infected person.

It stayed there, motionless, until a small fly flew past and the dragonfly moved so fast the hunt was over in a flash.

From June to October, I saw her grow as she sucked dry one small fly after another, until she was the size of a fingernail, with elegant legs striped like a zebra.

He has heard the thunder of caribou herds as they migrate out of the Arctic Slope, he has seen a brown bear up close, and he has caught a 31-inch rainbow trout on a very small fly.

But as I was standing in the Willowemoc River in the Catskills last week, straining my eyes to tie a size 20 blue-winged olive emerger (a really small fly, which is all anyone really needs to know) on a translucent monofilament thread, I decided that what I may be is an impurist.

Most were small fly-by-night operations, but two substantial independent companies emerged to rival the majors Dot and Liberty.

Skimming relying on such devices, which are often sold by small fly-by-night Internet companies for anywhere from $250 to $1,200, poses a growing problem for law enforcement and is costing consumers millions of dollars a year.

There are two small flies in the ointment.

Better still, all of the fishing is done with floating lines, long leaders and small flies.

The thing is, those are very small flies in some really great ointment.