Example Sentences

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Mantises find their prey visually, and their exceptionally sophisticated eyesight has lately caught the attention of researchers.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017

At first glance, the single false eyelash, conspicuously white, worn by each member of BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance is what distinguishes them as a tribe or species in “The Mantises Are Flipping W.3.”

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

Mantises, fifteen feet in height, winged things like pterodactyls, longer than bombing airplanes, followed, preying on the stragglers.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Bates, Harry