lightning bug
Example Sentences
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I half-expect him to leave a trail of argent, fading light in his wake, like a lightning bug.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2016
We know it as the firefly, or lightning bug, an insect that transforms the sultry summer evening into a veil laced with sequins.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2016
The gadfly wasn’t a gadfly - he was a lightning bug.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2016
Surprisingly, some of the singers also miss the mark, sometimes just by millimeters, but as Mark Twain observed, that's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2015
Max was the tenderhearted one who got upset at so much as a caterpillar accidentally crushed underfoot, or a dead lightning bug caught in the grille of his family’s limousine.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
