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How to use firefly in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Firefly means any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight. Example: “Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.”

Examples of firefly by meaning

nounAny beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.

  • The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.2004, B. V. David, T. N. Ananthakrishnan, “Chapter 20: Bioluminescence”, in General and Applied Entomology, 2nd edition, Tata McGraw-Hill...

More sentences with firefly

  • Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.From the entry bespeckle
  • The lambent glow of fireflies delighted the children.From the entry lambent
  • The glimmer of the fireflies was pleasant to watch.From the entry glimmer
  • The fireflies glimmered in the dark.From the entry glimmer
  • After being delayed for a week, the firefly season at Kaohsiung’s Namaxia began on Friday (March 24).2023 March 24, Stephanie Chiang, “Taiwan's Namaxia firefly season starts late this year”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry Namaxia
  • She used to imagine her mother playing in the yard, building snow castles or chasing fireflies.2015, Terri-Lynne DeFino, Seeking Carolina (A Bitterly Suite Romance), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN…. From the entry snow castle
  • A dozen air corps of fireflies searchlighted the spot for an instant.1937, L. Ron Hubbard, All Frontiers Are Jealous. From the entry searchlight
  • In some cases, the strings of light that sea fireflies (bioluminescent ostracods) produce rise up off the bottom.2021, Edith Widder, Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and ..., page 211. From the entry sea firefly
  • I love to talk about fireflies, stars and books.2020, Sanchi, “Sanchi”, in Krittika Pahwa, compiler, The Edge of Seventeen, The Little Booktique Hub, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry patronus
  • Next, we investigated how the EGFR-targeted trifunctionalized nanoengagers improve NK cell cytotoxicity against the firefly luciferase–expressing HT29 cells (HT29-Luc2).2020 July 3, Kin Man Au, Steven I. Park, Andrew Z. Wang, “Trispecific natural killer cell nanoengagers for targeted chemoimmunotherapy”…. From the entry trifunctionalize
  • We caught fruitsicle drips with our tongues and nudged away mosquitoes as we watched the show: a coliseum of fireflies blinking green, blue, and orange.2012, Bonnie Rough, Carrier. From the entry fruitsicle
  • My thoughts are flying around in my skull like fireflies in a jar, but all of a sudden I'm unbearably tired and can't stay awake.2006, Bart Yates, The Brothers Bishop. From the entry skull
  • Giggling children hid in the ditches and shot bottle rockets in front and behind them as they walked past; the sparks shot through the air like manic, fizzing fireflies.2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 158. From the entry bottle rocket
  • The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center.1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices. From the entry fountain

Meaning of firefly

  1. noun Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.

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Questions about firefly in a sentence

How do you use firefly in a sentence?
Firefly is used as a noun. For example: “Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.”
What is a short sentence with firefly?
“The fireflies glimmered in the dark.”
What does firefly mean?
Firefly means any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.

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