How to Use locust in a Sentence

locust

noun
  • Thomas was here for all the locust blights and plagues of boils.
    Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The spruce, maple, and locust trees filling the rolling hills are lush.
    Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The locust plague that hit East Africa in 2020 was two years in the making.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • There had been no warning the locusts were on their way.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The locusts moved west and south, reaching their zenith in Kenya in the early months of this year.
    Neha Wadekar, Quartz Africa, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Raise your free arm straight in front of you or back along your side like in locust pose.
    Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2020
  • That number dropped by 20% when a single locust was put on the job.
    Brian Niemietz, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The era felt something akin to end times, minus the horsemen and locusts.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Experts have warned that the number of locusts if unchecked could grow 500 times by June.
    Fox News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • There’s even a mutant locust plague that recalls … The Swarm?!
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
  • The locust swarms hang like shimmering dark clouds on the horizon in some places.
    Elias Meseret, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The scent of locust flowers filled the early summer air.
    Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Still, no flamethrower would ever get all the locusts—and no microwave weapon would get all the drones.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • That would be something like a flamethrower against a horde locusts.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Female locusts only lay their eggs when the ground is damp.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Soon the locusts had reached Ethiopia, where some farmers lost their entire crop.
    The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
  • This is my favorite place to look: A scrubby, overgrown field with some browse, berries, locust trees (deer love the pods), and the like.
    Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the silence a summer locust sings its harsh, passionate song to the heat.
    Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2021
  • So were many of the nails holding her together: spikes of hard locust.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The nexus of the locust breeding is around the Red Sea plains in the borderlands between Sudan and Eritrea.
    Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • There, among the ruckus of frogs and locusts, a moment absent of human sound fell upon us.
    David Frese, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • A storm blows apart the family’s home, a plague of locusts devours the crops, and people nearly starve to death.
    Lisa See, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Throughout the night, a swarm of locusts descended on the game, buzzing around the players and getting buried beneath the snow.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Reynolds herself connects the event to a reference to locusts that opens the Book of Joel in the Old Testament.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
  • No reason to watch out for frogs and locusts over a preseason scope job.
    Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • What has some people concerned about the renovation is that the city would have to tear out the 15 old, large locust trees on the mall.
    Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • As soon as James reached the platform a rope was thrown over his head and he was carried about 40 yards to a small locust tree near the blacksmith shop.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 July 2018
  • Police units fired tear gas and bullets but the locusts didn’t disperse.
    Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Cicada swarms recall biblical tales of locust plagues, fulfilling the bias of some that this is surely the endtimes.
    Travis Meier, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • Just in the past year, swarms of locusts the size of whole cities descended on Ethiopia, powerful bush fires ravaged Australia, and massive floods inundated Indonesia.
    Kathy Baughman McLeod, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020

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