How To Use Stridulate In A Sentence
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson
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These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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It required a considerable effort on the thranx's part not to stridulate wildly as he entered.
Diuturnity's Dawn
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Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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These factors set them very far apart from their Latin-derived associates, which are uniformly multisyllabic and which have differing noun and verb forms, for example: latrate (like a dog) and latration; stridulate (like a cricket or grasshopper) and stridulation; and ululate (like a dog, jackal, wolf, or owl) and ululation.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate
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An arachnologist says most spiders stridulate too quietly for humans to hear; an exception is Australia's barking spider, a kind of tarantula that lets out a hissing sound when threatened.
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Sound production in Libanasidus is similar to that of many New Zealand weta, where the males stridulate by rubbing the lateral abdominal stridulatory pads against the modified inner surfaces of the femora.
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When disturbed by a would be attacker the caterpillars stridulate by rubbing their mouth parts together, creating broadband chirps spanning from 3.7-55.1 kHz.
Caterpillars Utilize Sound and Stench As Defense | Impact Lab
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Studying the information, Pilwondepat stridulated involuntarily.
Diuturnity's Dawn
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The crickets stridulated their everlasting monotonous meaningful note.
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The robots squeaked and the multipeds stridulated.
Starchild Omnibus
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In the stridulating millipede Loboglomeris pyrenaica, the male grasps one antenna and one vulva of the female with his telopods and then proceeds to stridulate until the female is receptive.
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I then removed the antennæ of the male, and again made the female stridulate; the male heard her, and at once crawled toward her, although his antennæ were entirely removed.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
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Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped technically, "stridulated" for the same reasons.
Forbes.com: News
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A mixed audience of complimentary thranx and perspiring humans stridulated and cheered in unison.
Diuturnity's Dawn
