Their bodies and abdomens are slender, their wings large, thin, fragile, often of a dark colour, with brilliant markings.
The females of this genus tear off the fur from the extremity of their abdomens to make a soft bed for their eggs, and to preserve them from the cold.
The result was the same; as soon as their abdomensapproached each other they only thought of getting free, and ran away.
But after a few hours they become stronger, and the yellow and black bands with which their abdomens are surrounded begin to be marked out.
Always carefully clean out and stuff the abdomens of large-bodied insects; and as a rule, treat them with some substance that will either absorb or dissolve out all oily matter.
The abdomens of these become more or less contracted and shrivelled on drying, sometimes to such an extent as to look most unsightly.
In experiments in which the insects' abdomens were held immersed in water, with the thorax exposed, the insects died in 6 to 12 hours or less.
Specimens kept in jars lived several days with only a portion of their abdomens exposed to the air.
The abdomens of the infected insects became swollen, distended, and soft.
The old-city warriors, on the contrary, gnawed and clipped off the heads and abdomens of their enemies.
They leaned forward and downward, the heads of those behind overlapping the abdomens in front, and they looked for all the world like the riders of an old-fashioned three-seated bicycle, spurting along the trail.
Like the doorways of city shops in a shower, every curled-up leaf was packed, and from every crevice of bark projected sundry abdomens and hind legs for which there was no room inside.
Here the single line of ants which was ranged along the lower edge of the trail, in lieu of hand-rail, all faced downward, so that the ants passing above them walked partly on the abdomens and partly on the hind legs of their fellows.
They line up broadside to the sun’s rays, raising their wings and lowering their legs to expose their abdomens directly to the sun’s warmth.
Who can believe it: Tadpoles darting about, water striders dimpling the surface, blue darners stitching zig-zags through the air and dipping the tips of their abdomens into the water?
These patients are likely to be obese, or at least to have large abdomens with large deposits of fat around the abdomen.
Pendent abdomens or ptosed abdominal organs should be held up by proper abdominal bandages or corsets.
Dragon flies lazily winged their way across the pool, now resting daintily upon a blade of sedge or swamp grass, now dipping the tips of their abdomens beneath the surface of the water while depositing their eggs.
There are no longer sentinels sounding the alarm with their abdomens raised, and ready to die in defense of the hive.
Those that we watched usually disposed first of the abdomen and then of the cephalothorax; sometimes they would consume several abdomens before attacking the other parts.
The flies had all been attacked by the larva, the abdomens of some and the thoraces of others having been eaten.
The spiders were pushed in very tightly, and the legs and abdomens were, in many cases, bent to one side.
When flying in a threatening manner, either at us or at each other, they have a way of wagging their abdomens violently from side to side in a way well calculated to inspire terror.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abdomens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
