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Example sentences from the Web for butterfliesIt implies that GMOs are the opposite of butterflies and blades of grass. Whole Foods' Anti-GMO Swindle|Michael Schulson|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST It conjures up all sorts of nice mental pictures: waterfalls, butterflies, the slow return to spring after a long winter. Warning: “Natural Medicine” Is Often Code for “Pseudoscience”|Russell Saunders|April 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Farrow smiles and butterflies flutter and stars shoot across the night sky. Do Not Defy Ronan Farrow’s Power Pout|Tim Teeman|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Or that one time Mariah Carey rambled four minutes about butterflies and then blew glitter into the wind? Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, and Harry Connick Jr. Will Save ‘American Idol’|Kevin Fallon|September 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Judge Heidi Klum floated across stage as if carried by a fleet of butterflies. My Night at ‘America’s Got Talent’ With Mariann From Brooklyn|Kevin Fallon|July 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST We have before us then a number of groups of butterflies each with a series of different colour patterns. Mimicry in Butterflies|Reginald Crundall Punnett This is one of the largest and the most beautiful of the European butterflies. The Insect World|Louis Figuier For example, Ireland has only forty of the seventy species of British butterflies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 4|Various Butterflies are very numerous, some being second broods of double-brooded species, and others late single-brooded insects. Butterflies and Moths|William S. Furneaux In fact, the latter can be secured only by humming-birds and butterflies because of the length of the tube. Flowers of Mountain and Plain|Edith S. Clements
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pl ninformal tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness Words nearby butterfliesbutterfat, butterfat cheque, Butterfield, butterfingers, butterfish, butterflies, butterflies in one's stomach, butterfly, butterfly ballot, butterfly bomb, butterfly bush Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to butterfliesjumpy, afraid, uncertain, concerned, suspicious, doubtful, uneasy, uptight, jittery, fearful, anxious, startled, panicky, unnerved, spooked, restless, fidgety, nervous, apprehensive, distressed |