praying mantis
Example Sentences
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His proposed addition to Marcel Breuer’s original Whitney Museum would have hovered above it with predatory menace, like an 11-story concrete praying mantis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
"I don't want to look like a praying mantis with these things all over my head."
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2022
I looked down and saw a praying mantis, full grown and perhaps four inches long.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2021
She liked insects so much as a child, she remembers getting in trouble with her parents because she had forgotten that she had left praying mantis eggs in her treasure box.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2021
He was a whole head taller than Bobby Gene, but he was scrawny, with long, knobby limbs like a praying mantis.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
