beetle
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The northern dune tiger beetle is particularly fast moving and can travel at up to 2.5m a second, said Harper.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
A three-year-project to help boost sand dune-living rare beetle and toad numbers is to start later this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits that contain Heterhelus beetle larvae.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The beetle, named for six gold spots that adorn its back, doesn’t fly far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026
She looks right through me, the way passersby usually do, as if I'm no bigger than the beetle crawling in a crack in the sidewalk.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
At barely more than five feet tall, and with a bushy white beard and beetled brow, magician James “The Amazing” Randi resembles nothing so much as an angry elf.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
For this outing, Bette reports in a severe uniform, her brows beetled, her mouth a crumpled rose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, We’ll battle for our own true flag, We’ll fight for every star; In town, on plain, or beetled crag, Our cause we’ll thunder far.
From Our Battery The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. by Cutter, Orlando P.
This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2017
From almost anywhere in La Rinconada, you look up and you see her: La Bella Durmiente, Sleeping Beauty, an enormous glacier beetling above the town.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
His unusual actorly physiognomy—the ruddy, transparent skin, the bulky but far from graceless body, the beetling blond eyebrows—lent itself to all manner of physical and gestural shape-shifting.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014
Each looked like a character the other might have drawn, Maurice with his fireplug body and beetling brows and Robert with his shock of Wild Thing hair.
From Slate ● May 9, 2012
Clive Pike, to my left, eyes beetling bigger than humanly possible, g-force ribbling his face.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
