How To Use Praying mantis In A Sentence
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Girl power: This female Malaysian Orchid Praying Mantis is, at 60mm, long, twice the size of it's diminutive male counterpart.
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I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.sentence dictionary
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For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis, frozen there in the glass, he wrote.
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With his long legs almost under his chin, he looked like a praying mantis.
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He goes for walk one day and witnesses a fight between a cicada and a much smaller praying mantis.
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My mother gamely tolerated them, along with the odd praying mantis on the net curtains, smuggled home on the Train Bleu from Menton, where my French pen-friend, Jean-Franois, lived.
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Praying mantises, unlike other insects, do not eat plant life; they are the outstanding cannibals of the insect world and devour even members of their own family.
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And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage.
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Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis.
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Back and forth between the particular and the germane like a praying mantis lost in a butcher shop, cowboys and cowgirls riding side-saddle into the arena, gladiators peering through slits in spiked helmets, who do you love?
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However, its main claim to fame is its armament of raptorial claws, bearing a strong resemblance to those of the praying mantis - hence the name.
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The insect is the first praying mantis to be homed at Studley Grange and is on display in a glass tank and now basking in the heat it is used to.
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The acklay was born out of George Lucas' request to combine the characteristics of a praying mantis and a velociraptor to form a deadly arena creature.
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They wibble like inquisitive aliens, jab their arms like a praying mantis on a mission.
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It is the size of a paper clip and is described as a cross between a stick insect and a praying mantis.
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Maybe I could just buy some predator bugs, such as the praying mantis , to keep watch.
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It was a twelve-foot Fire Angel that had just enteredrusset-colored, with wings like stained-glass windowsand, along with intimations of mortality, it brought me recollections of a praying mantis, with a spiked collar and thornlike claws protruding through its short fur at every suggestion of an angle.
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A battered anglepoise lamp, like a praying mantis, crouched over the chair, an ancient golf ball dangling from its chipped arm.
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The little Grey Mantis (_Ameles decolor_), which differs so widely from the Praying Mantis in that the wings of the female are almost completely absent, builds a nest hardly as large as a cherry-stone, and covers it skilfully with a porous rind.
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Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis.
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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
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The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
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Praying mantises, unlike other insects, do not eat plant life; they are the outstanding cannibals of the insect world and devour even members of their own family.
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The praying mantis' ultrasonic hearing picks up frequencies above 20,000 hertz - just beyond the range of humans - through a single ear located in the center of its chest.
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Encourage natural predators such as dragonflies or praying mantises.
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The acklay was born out of George Lucas' request to combine the characteristics of a praying mantis and a velociraptor to form a deadly arena creature.
