Get to know Stridulate better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like clitter or resound.
Stridulate in a sentence
Stridulate meaning
To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
Using Stridulate
- The main meaning on this page is: To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
- Useful related words include: clitter, make noise, resound, noise.
- In the example corpus, stridulate often appears in combinations such as: to stridulate, stridulate or.
Context around Stridulate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stridulate
- In this selection, "stridulate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, may stand out and add context to how "stridulate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as they stridulate or vibrate and begin to stridulate and produce. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stridulate" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stridulate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They may stridulate, or vibrate the objects they are on. (10 words)
These sounds also function as tactile communication, or communication through touch, as they stridulate, or vibrate a substrate like leaves and stems. (22 words)
Once the female beetles have arrived on a suitable pine tree host, they begin to stridulate and produce aggregative pheromones to attract other unmated males and females. (27 words)
As the males arrive, they enter the galleries that the females have tunneled, and begin to stridulate to let the females know they have arrived, and to also warn others that the female in that gallery is taken. (38 words)
Once the female beetles have arrived on a suitable pine tree host, they begin to stridulate and produce aggregative pheromones to attract other unmated males and females. (27 words)
These sounds also function as tactile communication, or communication through touch, as they stridulate, or vibrate a substrate like leaves and stems. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
As the males arrive, they enter the galleries that the females have tunneled, and begin to stridulate to let the females know they have arrived, and to also warn others that the female in that gallery is taken.
Once the female beetles have arrived on a suitable pine tree host, they begin to stridulate and produce aggregative pheromones to attract other unmated males and females.
These sounds also function as tactile communication, or communication through touch, as they stridulate, or vibrate a substrate like leaves and stems.
They may stridulate, or vibrate the objects they are on.
Common combinations with stridulate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to stridulate 2×
- stridulate or 2×