locust
(loʊkəst )
Word forms: locusts
countable noun
Locusts are large insects that live mainly in hot countries. They fly in large groups and eat crops.
He was not engulfed by a plague of locusts swarming across the fairway.
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Collocations:
locust swarm plague of locusts
What the locust swarm has left, the great locusts have eaten, what the great locusts have left, the young locusts have eaten.
Christianity Today
The wind continued until the following day, when it brought a locust swarm.
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But locust swarms aren't really mobs or 'mindless throngs'.
The Times Literary Supplement
He was not engulfed by a plague of locusts swarming across the fairway.
Times, Sunday Times
Thus, unlike bee swarms, which bring honey and essential pollination services, locust swarms have historically been associated with massive hardship and economic dislocation.
The Times Literary Supplement
A plague of locusts on the other two.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet if we left there would be no earthquake, no plague of locusts.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps he thinks that when the plague of locusts comes it will be a nutritious food source in the event of no-deal.
Times, Sunday Times
Your lot sound like a plague of locusts.
The Sun
It would actually feel like a plague of locusts.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 蝗虫
Japanese: バッタ
- overcome anxiety
- overcome a perception
- overcome a setback
- overcome a shock
- overcome a shortage
- overcome a stigma
- overcome a temptation
- overcome a trauma
- overcome a weakness
- overcome barriers
- overcome by fumes
- overcome doubt
- overcome evil
- overcome hardship
- overcome objections
- overcome obstacles
- overcome opposition
- overcome poverty
- overcome prejudice
- overcome problems
- overcome resistance
- overcome shyness
- overcome the constraints
- overcome the lack of
- overcorrect