Example sentences for: locusts

How can you use “locusts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • BBC News reports that Oxford University scientists have determined that locusts attract other locusts with chemical signals to amass swarms that can strip a field bare within hours.

  • Favorite portents: the formation of the state of Israel, the end of the millennium, the continued reign of Saddam Hussein, and black helicopters ("swarming locusts" to the prophets).

  • What about the plague of locusts and the rain of frogs?"

  • Swarming female locusts can also manipulate the genes in their eggs to ensure that their young will want to join the swarm immediately.

  • (Locusts reared in seclusion are reluctant to gather.)


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