How to Use swallowtail in a Sentence

swallowtail

noun

• As a swallowtail, like a folded note, sways on a long blossom.
  — Rae Armantrout, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• The parsley worm, which grows up to be the Eastern black swallowtail, feeds on parsley, dill and fennel.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 June 2017
• In due course, a floor manager in a swallowtail coat and striped trousers appeared.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 2 May 2021
• Testers found the high ankle swallowtail feature to be a bit extraneous, though the heel cup does hold the foot in place.
  — Outside Online, 27 July 2022
• With the flowers have come swarms of Western tiger swallowtail butterflies and Sphinx moths the size of hummingbirds.
  — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
• It’s not yet clear if there are enough lime swallowtail here to make a viable population.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
• For instance, the giant swallowtail caterpillar mimics bird poop–right up to the smell.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2017
• For instance, the giant swallowtail caterpillar mimics bird poop–right up to the smell.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2017
• The spicebush swallowtail, for example, which is found throughout the eastern U.S., emerges from its egg mottled in black and white.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Be prepared: Dill is a food source for swallowtail caterpillars.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2018
• Wealthy diners in swallowtail coats feasted on small songbirds soaked in Armagnac, flambéed, and then eaten whole.
  — Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
• The exterior side of the Kawana’s swallowtail is about a half-inch more pronounced than the interior side and is apparently meant to distribute the weight of a heel strike.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2022
• Luckily that doesn’t seem to bother the beautiful anise swallowtail, which uses the plant as its larval host (and lots of other plants in the carrot family).
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2016
• The main body of material in the 336-page book focuses on individual species, from swallowtails to silk moths.
  — Sally Peterson, oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
• There are a handful of specialized shapes, including a swallowtail in the Weston line, that our testers prefer on road-closing powder days.
  — Drew Zieff, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2020
• At the crest of central Oregon’s 5,325-foot McKenzie Pass, a black-and-gold swallowtail butterfly landed on the handlebars of my bicycle before flitting to my open hand.
  — Brian E. Clark, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• The deck, now heat- and slip-resistant white porcelain tile instead of red brick, steps down from the back door and stretches toward an arbutus tree whose flowers and fruit attract hummingbirds and swallowtails.
  — Emily Young, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• Its flavors seem airborne, flitting around your mouth like a swallowtail and touching down on your palate just long enough to tantalize you into wanting another sip.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• Ten millimeters of taper and an easily engaged, sinkable swallowtail help the cause.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• After blowing up a picture of the swallowtail and failing to find a match in any of her books or online, Kolterman called Roger Hammer, a wildflower expert and fellow butterfly guy.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 22 June 2017
• The spicebush swallowtail is an impressive snake mimic.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The classic Dart shape remains the same: a broad, rockered nose; a wide, cambered midsection; and a relatively petite, tapered backseat notched with a sultry swallowtail.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2022
• Various swallowtail and heliconid butterflies are some of roughly 30 species that will be on display.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Painted ladies and swallowtail butterflies flitted about in the late afternoon sunshine, and a gentle, caressing breeze carried the blended fragrances of pine, cedar, sage and fresh oxygen.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
• The caterpillar's other defenses include inflatable red horns that emit a terrible stink, like those of the spicetail swallowtail.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Each one resembles a specific poisonous monarch butterfly, which explains the species’ common name, the mocker swallowtail.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• Some swallowtails appear as early as March in southeast Wisconsin, report or check sightings online at wisconsinbutterflies.org.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• Unlike the giant swallowtail, the gulf fritillary hatches a large number of caterpillars on its egg-laying site, and those caterpillars will often strip it of foliage during the breeding season.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2021
• Late summer brought a squadron of swallowtail butterflies that seemed to prefer feeding on the leathery leaves of ceanothus while nearby the busy skipper butterflies focused on clusters of wildflowers closer to the ground.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• Perhaps the same is true for other butterflies like morphos and pipevine swallowtails, which have independently evolved blue iridescence.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017

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