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
In the end, only Phelps was an Olympics lightning bug.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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
Beside him in the darkness the coal of her cigarette glowed like the rump of a complacent lightning bug: a steady, unwavering index of Rachael Rosen’s achievement.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
