Sentence examples for sort of insect from inspiring English sources

I must have looked like a sort of insect, an arthropod with glass scales.

Databases of varying quality are available for many groups of species, particularly birds, mammals, plants and the showier sort of insect.

The poet, then thirty-seven, looked, to his worshipper, "rather over than under sixty," his body nearly "deformed" by the mismatch of his short legs and his long torso; he walked like "some sort of insect," De Quincey wrote.

Other species smell like a fungus to attract fungus gnats, or even like feces or carrion to attract the sort of insect that prefers to mate and lay its eggs on such things.

To paraphrase the slogan of Roach Motel, a brand of traps aimed at a different sort of insect pest, bed bugs check in, but they don't check out.The new trap could be used both to assess whether a hotel room or apartment is infested and also to kill the insects without dousing everything in insecticide which is, in any case, an increasingly futile exercise, as many have now evolved resistance.

It said: "The council feels such a name conjures up mental connotations of stinging and danger and would much prefer to find a name that has nothing to do with any sort of insect".

He found the light attracted the sort of insects and other creatures that would be good at spreading spores.

Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops.

Pollination is effected by diverse agents, most commonly various sorts of insects.

In my translation, Gregor is transformed into "some sort of monstrous insect" with "some sort of" added to blur the borders of the somewhat too specific "insect"; I think Kafka wanted us to see Gregor's new body and condition with the same hazy focus with which Gregor himself discovers them.

"Some sort of leftwing insect".