How to use locust in a sentence

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• We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.From the entry have
• The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.From the entry bare
• Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.From the entry plague
• The invertebrae are usually forbidden, the only exceptions being several types of locusts enumerated in the Torah.2013, Adin Steinsaltz, The Essential Talmud. From the entry invertebrae
• I countersank into the locust just enough to make the nailhead flush.2010, Larry Pardey, Details of Classic Boat Construction, pages 7-30. From the entry countersink
• Locusts do not touch mabele, and therefore there is no excuse for not putting in more.1901 April 26, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 4, page 102. From the entry mabele
• Federal agents are going to descend on this place like locusts in about twenty minutes, max, and they’ll detain everyone.1998, Laura J. Mixon, Proxies, page 270. From the entry interrobang
• In its native form the branches of the honey locust are thorned and bear seed pods up to a foot long.1990 January 19, James Krohe Jr., “Green Streets”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry thorned
• Examples of this type include mouse killing (muricide) or frog killing (ranicide) by the rat and attacks on locusts by mice.1989, Robert Plutchik, Henry Kellerman, editors, The Measurement of Emotions, Academic Press, →ISBN, section “Predatory Attack”, page 272. From the entry muricide
• A further supply of mallein has been elaborated; examinations of samples of locusts, urine, etc., have been made.1901 June 21, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Veterinary Departmental Report for April, 1901”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record…. From the entry mallein
• For people who would rather face a plague of locusts than permit an avoidable ambiguity, this is like having their underwear twisted.2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry ambiguity
• The sanctuary's other habitats include forests of black cherry, red cedar, black locust, beech, and oak, with red maples and black gums in wet areas.2011, John S. Burk, The Wildlife of New England: A Viewer's Guide, page 175. From the entry black gum
• We hear of pestilence of Biblical or Koranic proportions: plagues, locusts, famine, wars, wholesale displacement of peoples, diseases, some of which are incurable.1989, Nigeria Since Independence: The First Twenty-Five Years, Heinemann Educational, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry of Koranic proportions
• The repeat worm plague that came on Lotus Island in a way resembled the plague of locusts in old Egypt and Kindersley from yester-millennium and yesteryear.2016, Jim Warren, Listen to Your Garden, Hidden Dimensions. From the entry yester-millennium
• All the other schistocercas, except for the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria, (responsible for biblical and modern day plagues in Africa) are found in the New World.2006 October 12, vanessa cardui, “What better day than Columbus Day?”, in Am I Bugging You Yet?: Bug sightings in and around Tustin…. From the entry schistocerca
• As early as the nineteenth century, there were people who insisted that locusts were healthier than pork, but they never became a gastronomic smasheroo in Europe.2005, The Low Countries. From the entry smasheroo
• Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.1944, Country Life, volume 95, page 820. From the entry pastor
• In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs.1930 October 11, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Trip Abroad”, in The Saturday Evening Post. From the entry motorbus

Meaning of locust

1. noun Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
2. noun A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
3. noun Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.

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How do you use locust in a sentence?

Locust is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.”

What is a short sentence with locust?

“I countersank into the locust just enough to make the nailhead flush.”

What does locust mean?

Locust means any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).