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Locusts meaning
plural of locust
Example sentences (20)
If locusts are eating everything, might as well eat the locusts.
Allen 36 While the book purports to describe a plague of locusts, some ancient Jewish opinion saw the locusts as allegorical interpretations of Israel's enemies.
Locusts are grasshoppers and cicadas are more closely related to aphids than grasshoppers.
Locusts are infamous for travelling in swarms and destroying crops as they consume the equivalent of their own body weight each day.
Once split up by a swarm of locusts, the player must help Fone Bone and Phoney Bone reunite with their cousin, Smiley.
She had depended solely on handouts from kind people and locusts and natural vegetables for relish as she could not afford anything better.
They're not popular with gardeners And locusts, a type of swarming grasshopper, can to vegetation and crops when they're in a feeding frenzy.
Raleigh publicly accused the political locusts of his time of lying in all they did.
Yet, he was undaunted in his quest to see his fatherland liberated from the era of locusts that pitched us against the comity of nations.
According to Mr Keynan, UAVs, known as drones, could also be used to collect data and high resolution images of green, vegetated areas potentially affected by locusts.
Adesina wrote that desert locusts can "consume crops in one day that can feed approximately 35,000 people," and in East Africa, where approximately 20 million people are already food insecure, the effects could be devastating.
A farmer chases away locusts near Enziu, Kenya.
After the locusts crossed into Uganda for the first time since the 1960s, soldiers resorted to using hand-held spray pumps because of difficulties in obtaining the needed aircraft.
A of the locusts has been growing up in the Somalia desert in recent weeks, preparing to take flight as the next wave headed toward Kenya, Ethiopia and beyond.
Argentina and surrounding countries are no strangers to swarms of locusts.
But despite FAO and other organizations moving as fast as they could to curb the spread of the locusts, their sheer numbers meant they were already hard to control.
But then when good rains also caused favorable breeding environments for locusts, the joy of rains has suddenly turned hopes of expected plenty into glooms of hunger.
But to the woke crowd, which is flying through our institutions like a swarm of starving locusts, objective truth is oppressive, the product of evil Western imperialism.
Card-carrying leash holders from the pitbull lobby descended upon my DM inbox like locusts, shaking their pitchforks and calling for my head.
Deputy Director (Agriculture) G Ram said locusts were hovering over the jungles of Mahoba for three days and entered Bhagari, Bachchchar Kala, Nagaradang, Magrol and Saliya villages Thursday but were chased away by farmers.