How do you use Locusts in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Locusts meaning
plural of locust
Using Locusts
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of locust
- In the example corpus, locusts often appears in combinations such as: the locusts, of locusts, locusts are.
Context around Locusts
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Locusts
- In this selection, "locusts" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, desert, away, near, crossed and objective stand out and add context to how "locusts" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affected by locusts and after the locusts crossed into. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "locusts" sits close to words such as aarp, abdi and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with locusts
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A farmer chases away locusts near Enziu, Kenya. (8 words)
If locusts are eating everything, might as well eat the locusts. (11 words)
Argentina and surrounding countries are no strangers to swarms of locusts. (11 words)
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. (36 words)
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. (34 words)
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. (29 words)
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.
Common combinations with locusts
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the locusts 19×
- of locusts 12×
- locusts are 9×
- locusts and 8×
- desert locusts 6×
- and locusts 5×
- locusts to 4×
- locusts the 3×
- locusts of 3×
- locusts that 3×