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
  • 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
  • Will cicadas harm your garden like a swarm of locusts?
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 June 2026
  • Val, without saying a word, grabbed the locust from the guy and ate it.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • That would be something like a flamethrower against a horde locusts.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • No reason to watch out for frogs and locusts over a preseason scope job.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • The locust swarms hang like shimmering dark clouds on the horizon in some places.
    — Elias Meseret, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The era felt something akin to end times, minus the horsemen and locusts.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That number dropped by 20% when a single locust was put on the job.
    — Brian Niemietz, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Police units fired tear gas and bullets but the locusts didn’t disperse.
    — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Soon the locusts had reached Ethiopia, where some farmers lost their entire crop.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Moses brings about a plague of locusts that cover the land and eat all the remaining crops, fruit, and trees.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In the silence a summer locust sings its harsh, passionate song to the heat.
    — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Insect plagues were of such severity that farmers were paid by the bushel for locust corpses.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
  • After a month or so, the locusts will be mature adults, ready to reproduce.
    — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
  • But there are ways to beat the locusts—ways to short-circuit or break out of the experiment.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • There, among the ruckus of frogs and locusts, a moment absent of human sound fell upon us.
    — David Frese, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • After Amunhotep calls in a swarm of locusts, Jay slips in to snap a picture.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • Rocky Mountain locusts were once so numerous that their swarms blocked the sun.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But there was no sky, just a seething mass of screeching locusts blocking out the early-morning light.
    — Lisa See, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Experts have warned that the number of locusts if unchecked could grow 500 times by June.
    — Fox News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • On top of a long piece of locust wood cut in equal segments and assembled to look like an artery, small bronze figures process in a line.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 June 2021
  • The locust plague that hit East Africa in 2020 was two years in the making.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The locust-winds of this tremendous storm, now sped and gone, have fretted every green leaf, stripped tree bark and twig down to the last tendril.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • The mature honey-locust tree which shades the yard outside my studio compelled me to capture the droop and drift of its leaves.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • That’s like telling the difference between the dragonfly’s flutter and the hum of a locust.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2016
  • 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
  • These included the death of the firstborn, turning the Nile into blood and locusts.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 28 Mar. 2026

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