English example sentences with "locusts"

Locusts came in big swarms.
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Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
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A swarm of locusts descended on the cornfield.
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Tourists are locusts on wheels.
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Their sports were of a childish, pastoral character; Chloe would neglect her flock to roam in search of day-lilies, the stalks of which she twisted into traps for locusts; while Daphnis often played from morn till eve upon a pipe, which he had formed of slender reeds, perforating them between their joints, and securing them together with soft wax.
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They amused themselves in chasing and catching noisy locusts and chattering grasshoppers, in gathering posies, and in shaking fruit from the trees, and eating it.
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Tom was not afraid of locusts and planned to enter the unexplored valley fearlessly.
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But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts, to cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the fields.
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And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts. And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all the coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been before that time, nor shall be hereafter.
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And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharaoh, prayed to the Lord. And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.
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"I remember, as if it was yesterday, the locusts that ravaged our vines; from east to west, they were rushing; our community couldn't take it anymore ...", sang Idir in his song "Cfiɣ".
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Bvalltu and I, in company with the increasing band of our fellow explorers, visited many worlds of many strange kinds. In some we spent only a few weeks of the local time; in others we remained for centuries, or skimmed from point to point of history as our interest dictated. Like a swarm of locusts we would descend upon a new-found world, each of us singling out a suitable host. After a period of observation, long or short, we would leave, to alight again, perhaps, on the same world in another of its ages; or to distribute our company among many worlds, far apart in time and in space.
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Kenya is under siege by swarms of maturing desert locusts that threaten to ruin farmers’ crops and pastures.
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The locusts had destroyed everything in their path.
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The World Food Program senior director of operations in Madagascar, Amer Daoudi, said at least 1.35 million people are suffering from acute hunger, many of whom are living off locusts, raw cactus fruits or wild leaves.

According to many experts, locusts and mealworms, among other insects, are the food of the future because they are rich in proteins and much less environmentally harmful than, for example, cattle. But, do they also taste good?

Countless locusts have been sweeping through crop and pasture fields in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

Locusts are threatening to inflict more pain on some of the most drought-ravaged parts of eastern Australia.

Hundreds of yelling people are swarming into the park like locusts.

My family eat like locusts and can clear a fridge in half an hour.

Livestock overgrazing can lead to outbreaks of ravenous locusts, according to a new study.

The locusts ravaged everything.

Mr. Cressman says control operations are still underway in the Sahelian countries and these will continue until the end of the year, at least until the locusts are gone. At the same time, ground and aerial control operations are already in progress in Morocco and Algeria in response to the incoming swarms from the Sahelian countries. Mr. Cressman says a two-pronged strategy is in place.

Mr. Cressman says the number of locusts might not be reduced in the Maghreb countries until the beginning of the spring rains. That is four months away. During this time locusts will breed and multiply and then move south again. But there are no longer fears of a regional plague.