How do you use Locust in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like wood or tree, plus the exact meaning.
Locust meaning
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
Locust vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Locust
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria). | A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). | Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
- Useful related words include: short-horned grasshopper, acridid, wood, locust tree.
- Possible Dutch translations are: treksprinkhaan, sprinkhaan.
- In the example corpus, locust often appears in combinations such as: the locust, at locust, locust grove.
Context around Locust
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Locust
- In this selection, "locust" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, red, brown, migratory, street, grove and species stand out and add context to how "locust" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1412 south locust street pontiac and 8 west locust st. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "locust" sits close to words such as aberration, aditya and af, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with locust
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He noted that FAO came in strongly during desert locust invasion. (11 words)
Diaz purchased the ticket at Zee Market at 15 Locust St. in Northampton. (13 words)
Holiday Hunt in the Mansion Family Program at the Locust Grove Estate in Poughkeepsie, 12pm. (15 words)
Check-In and light refreshments will be available at 8:30 a.m., with the workshops beginning at 9 a.m. The program will be hosted at the University of Illinois Extension-Livingston County Office at 1412 South Locust Street, Pontiac. (41 words)
Philadelphia police said in an email to The Associated Press that Oubre was struck at about 7 p.m. while crossing the road at Broad and Locust streets in Center City, and that he was taken to Jefferson hospital. (39 words)
There seemed to have been a consensus that the period the military ruled Nigeria could best be described as “the years eaten by the locust”, the title of two well-received collections of writings by Fr. George Ehusani. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Two other locust species – the red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata) and the brown locust ( to have swarmed and caused agricultural damage in southern Africa.
Behavioral experiments with the migratory locust Locusta migratoria showed that cannibalism rates increased with the number of gregarious animals that were kept together in a cage.
Check-In and light refreshments will be available at 8:30 a.m., with the workshops beginning at 9 a.m. The program will be hosted at the University of Illinois Extension-Livingston County Office at 1412 South Locust Street, Pontiac.
Diaz purchased the ticket at Zee Market at 15 Locust St. in Northampton.
Every time I go back home to Baltimore, one of my first stops is a no-brainer: Locust Point, the peninsular neighborhood just south of the city, houses a number of hidden treasures.
He noted that FAO came in strongly during desert locust invasion.
He said, “We will see in the next few days and weeks, as the hoppers, the adolescent locust become adults, the true scale.
Holiday Hunt in the Mansion Family Program at the Locust Grove Estate in Poughkeepsie, 12pm.
Merideth can trace her roots to the Armistead family, which enslaved people in the Williamsburg area and is known to have sent at least one child, named Locust, to the Bray School.
Philadelphia police said in an email to The Associated Press that Oubre was struck at about 7 p.m. while crossing the road at Broad and Locust streets in Center City, and that he was taken to Jefferson hospital.
The company is interested in building one of its East Coast greenhouses in East Allen Township on Locust Road between Route 512 and Arrowhead Road.
There seemed to have been a consensus that the period the military ruled Nigeria could best be described as “the years eaten by the locust”, the title of two well-received collections of writings by Fr. George Ehusani.
According to Union Bridge Mayor Perry Jones, the annual Union Bridge carnival will take place May 30 to June 1 from 6 to 10 p.m. at 8 West Locust St.
A historic building located at 524 Locust Place will be transformed into a new restaurant in the coming months in Sewickley.
All Lilypads feature recyclable aluminum hulls, second-life refurbished battery packs and locally harvested black locust lumber decking (finding a new purpose for an invasive species).
Chase was a police officer in Locust Grove, Georgia, which is about 35 miles southeast of Atlanta.
Franklin Joseph “Frank” Holden, age 90, of Fayetteville, Ohio passed away Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at the Locust Ridge Nursing Home near Mt. Orab, Ohio.
He called someone, and they just happened to be travelling in a path which would take them past Locust Level, with a schedule which permitted them to provide the handling equipment for the first sale.
Locust Trace AgriScience Center, part of Fayette County Public Schools, uses rooftop solar and energy efficient design to be a net zero energy campus.
Middleboro firefighters and mutual aid crews battled a two-alarm fire at a house on Locust Street for over three hours on Monday night.
Common combinations with locust
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the locust 24×
- at locust 11×
- locust grove 9×
- locust street 9×
- locust invasion 9×
- locust st 8×
- desert locust 8×
- on locust 7×
- in locust 6×
- of locust 6×