NOUN
- any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
- small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind
How To Use blindworm In A Sentence
- I can understand the reasons why Andy is being spoken about because he is different," he revealed, adding "Apart from his size he is also a left-footed player" lest we might conclude that this difference involved living in a fridge, communicating only via the lyrics of The Carpenters and slithering around on his belly after dark like a blindworm. Will Andy Carroll prove the difference that destroys the planet?
- In truth the blindworm is perfectly harmless and quite safe to handle.
- I found delightful adventures in the woods—one day a blindworm and an adder fighting in a green hollow—and sometimes Mrs. Earle would be afraid to tidy the room because I had put a bottle full of newts on the mantelpiece. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
- The blindworm, that legless lizard, flows along the porch step calm and majestic as an anaconda, only the size is different.
- It was a greenly weaving ribbon of light, a snakelike stream of glowing, phosphorescent particles that moved like a blindworm over and across the vast rocky shelf. Hero Of Dreams
- The blindworm coils where Queens have slept, nor asks Brittany & Its Byways
- Working together to imagine what hedgehogs, newts, and blindworms look like, the children can then create movements and sounds for each creature.
- He might have had some kind of herb, or maybe some juice from a blindworm, to make us blind. Dragon on a Pedestal
- The last time I saw your father, I told him that if he ever came back here, I'd turn him into a blindworm. NEVERWHERE
- The closed quarries are a paradise for thermophile animals: blindworms and lizards are to be found in large populations here.