How to Use grasshopper in a Sentence

grasshopper

noun

• The grasshopper wasn’t sure what the moral of the story was.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Two grasshoppers want to race a distance of 12 feet (there and back).
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2012
• And last March, a pink grasshopper was found in a field in Wood County, Texas.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 25 July 2023
• While out for a walk in Texas, Dirk Parker came across a bright pink grasshopper.
  — Fox News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Due to its bright pink colors, this grasshopper makes for easy prey.
  — Fox News, 22 Mar. 2022
• High-end chefs like Jose Andres and Rene Redzepi serve up grasshoppers and ants.
  — Jason Plautz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2019
• In the Brazilian rainforest, a grasshopper lands on a leaf and seals its fate.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
• With a grasshopper, twist off the head—the guts should come with it—before swallowing the abdomen.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
• In the poem, the narrator watches a grasshopper in her hand wash her face and then fly away.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2021
• Then come the insects, the Franklin’s bumblebee and the Bozdagh grasshopper in turn, then the spiders, the fish, the reptiles, the amphibians, the frogs, 17 kinds in all.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The grasshopper is pouring forth his quick and trembling notes; The laughter of the gleaner’s child, the heart’s own music floats.
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 17 Oct. 2022
• Still, when the grasshopper suggested breakfast, the ant said yes.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Caterpillars, rose slugs, grasshoppers, spider mites and chilli thrips are the prime pests in the summer.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• The two species were among seven new grasshoppers identified by Hill and his team.
  — José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• Locusts are a type of grasshopper, while cicadas are type of insect all their own.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the book, Po Campo cooked a range of dishes that included beef steak, beans and fried grasshoppers.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Feb. 2020
• Like a grasshopper, the leaproach powers its mighty jump with a huge pair of back legs that are twice the length of its other four, and longer than its entire body.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2011
• Woe betide a beetle or a grasshopper perched on a leaf above the backwaters where these fish lurk.
  — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• Twenty minutes were enough for the insects—a type of grasshopper—to destroy nearly all of it.
  — Popular Science, 7 June 2020
• Fillings range from al pastor and tender short ribs with goat cheese to grasshoppers.
  — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2020
• But for the next 60 million years there is not so much as a single dragonfly, grasshopper or roach.
  — Lucas Joel, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Amid the old tires and mattresses dumped on the riverbank, mounds of rank green weeds gave refuge to birds and grasshoppers, which didn’t seem bothered by the fecal stench.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• To attract a female bow-winged grasshopper, the male rubs a comb-like structure on his hind leg against a vein that protrudes from his front wing.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2012
• The number one item on the menu, however, is the grasshopper sushi which does contain real grasshoppers on top of rice.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 June 2021
• Wet weather is to blame for the hordes of grasshoppers that have descended upon Las Vegas this week.
  — Fox News, 28 July 2019
• Hoyer does have to remind his young grasshopper to have a short memory.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly.
  — Adriana Brasileiro, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
• Chapulines, a type of grasshopper, and chiquitanas — a species of leaf-cutter ant — are two such items.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• In recent years, birds, ants, bats, termites, mayflies, grasshoppers, and beetles have all been spotted on radar.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
• At the end of the season, these tobacco plants had much less leaf damage than others from grasshoppers and cutworms.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013

Last Updated: 28 May 2024