Examples from literature

• A centipede walks on many small legs, and it can even run if there is danger. 
• Centipedes also have two larger, special legs that they use to catch and eat their food – like teeth! 
• Centipedes have even more legs than insects do. 
• Centipedes walk on many, many legs! 
• Millipedes have more legs than centipedes, but millipedes move slowly because they have short legs that can’t go very far. 
• The word centipede means “one hundred feet,” but some centipedes have only thirty feet, whereas others have three hundred! 
• A big centipede—it was seven inches, for we measured it afterwards—fell from the rafters overhead squarely into her coiffure. 
• All those found in the Northern States are perfectly harmless, the true centipede, whose bite is reputed much more venomous than it really is, being found only in the South. 
• But with the exception of these tormenting insects, and a rather alarming variety of centipedes, scorpions, and spiders, we have no venomous creatures to disturb us. 
• He found a centipede in the garden and pressed it into her hand on the way to school. 
• There was a bee weighing down a blossom of thyme close by, and underneath the stalk a very ugly little centipede.