How to Use caterpillar in a Sentence

caterpillar

noun

• Stay alert to caterpillars that feed on the foliage and fruit.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• The disease has killed millions of British elm trees, which is the food source for white-letter hairstreak caterpillars.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 19 Feb. 2018
• Steve, a lifer, talked about his transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
  — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• And plants can communicate with one another and with caterpillars.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• You were inspired by the movements of jellyfish and caterpillars and other animals?
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• Eighteen-wheelers suddenly come down with the wiggles, like segmented caterpillar pull toys.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
• The filmmakers use micro-filming to get an up-close view of the life of a butterfly from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to the emergence of the mature butterfly.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• President Donald Trump has hair that has been compared to that of one particular caterpillar.
  — Jessica Kwong, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2018
• Clothes moths naturally like closets and wardrobes, with the caterpillars relying on natural fibers like linen, wool, silk, or fur for sustenance.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2018
• Its caterpillar tracks were not reliable enough to operate at such depth, so the company imagined two Archimedes screws to drag its vehicle through the mud.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Observers credited that to the banner wildflower season that produced a bumper caterpillar crop, a high-protein source of food for the migrating hawks.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Hour three will cover the actual process of raising the caterpillars that become monarch butterflies, watching as nature takes its course and being a good steward of the habitat.
  — Ginger Brashinger, Daily Southtown, 23 Mar. 2018
• Like the caterpillar who spins itself into a silky cocoon and turns into a butterfly, so, too, must the Boston Yeti continue to spin into new and beautiful things.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The light of the kitchen tinged the caterpillar's skin yellow.
  — Jackie Polzin, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• About the length of a paper clip, the caterpillar sways its black and bristly body back and forth.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2024
• If the head of the caterpillar is dark, winter will start cold.
  — Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2021
• Those are the cocoons of the wasp larvae that have fed on the caterpillar.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
• For years, a blight of caterpillars had been munching the trees to death.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• The eggs hatch and the tiny green caterpillars start eating.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
• Kids and adults both coo at the sight of a crawling caterpillar.
  — Molly Schools, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2020
• The gypsy moth is the adult stage of one of the caterpillar species that threaten tree canopies.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• To rear a caterpillar to the adult stage, see the directions here.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2021
• Once the tube is cool, the wasp fills the cavity with mud, an egg and a bit of prey, like a caterpillar.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• So the wasp comes, puts loads of larvae inside of the caterpillars.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• This is a native caterpillar and a great food source for birds.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
• Like all moths, the atlas starts first as a caterpillar.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2022
• Place the moth or caterpillar in an airtight container and store in a freezer until the specimen can be picked up by ODA staff.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 24 May 2024
• The process is fraught with uncertainty, much like a caterpillar’s journey to becoming a butterfly.
  — Joel Goldstein, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024