In the South it takes only thirteen years for thesecicadas to develop.
As soon as they hatch out, the tinycicadas drop down to the ground and burrow into the earth.
It is a philosophical fact that the female Cicadas are not capable of making any noise--the above distich evinces its early discovery.
The Cicadas of Africa, it is said, may be heard half a mile off; and the sound of one in a room will put a whole company to silence.
Kirby and Spence that the Brazilian Cicadas sing as loud as to be heard at the distance of a mile.
Baird says, but on what authority he does not state, that Cicadas are frequently to be seen represented on the Egyptian monuments, and are said to be emblems of the ministers of religion.
There must be cicadas among the leaves: I had heard them trilling, earlier in the day; but the heat had reduced them to silence.
Eating of other insects such as cicadas and June beetles, is a rarity, but on occasion a racer may be tempted to sample such prey when it finds the newly emerged imago before its exoskeleton has hardened.
The chirp of the cicadas gave me such a start that I bear them a grudge.
On events of old in Kuang Lin: Cicadas chirp; crows roost; but, in a twinkle, they are gone.
Riding once more beside the carriage, Marcian felt his heart light: passions and fears were all forgotten; the sun flaming amid the pale blue sky, the violet shadows of the mountains, the voice of cicadas made rapture to his senses.
While the cicadas of which we have spoken are the children of an ancient race which inhabits America, Europe also has her ancient races of cicadas, although they are not the kind which live hermit lives for seventeen years.
If, in the moonlight of some June evening, a Junior Naturalist should see a tree covered with cicadas at this stage he would think it had suddenly blossomed into beautiful, white, fluttering flowers.
There are many broods of cicadas in the United States, so that they appear in different localities in different years.
The real locusts have mouth-parts formed for biting, while thecicadas have mouth-parts grown together in the form of a tube, through which they suck juices of plants.
The songs of the cicadas are noted all over the world.
Anyone who has entered a wood where thousands of the seventeen-year cicadas were hatching has never forgotten it.
The Cicadas remain on trees, whose sap they suck by means of their sharp-pointed beak.
Tropical Cicadas ascend to the pine-woods above Lamteng in this month, and chirp shrilly in the heat of the day; and glow-worms fly about at night.
As the sun glared between the layers of vapour, the cicadas screamed from the tops of the walnut-trees, while I upon the dazzling white road felt that there was no need of so much rejoicing.
Even the cicadas in the great jungle tree, that towered a hundred and fifty feet above the house, were quiet.
A colony of cicadas on the limbs of a great gutta tree awoke into life and pierced our ears with buzz-saw strains.
For miles I saw no human being and heard no sound of life except the shrilling of grasshoppers and the more strident song of the cicadas in the trees.
The cicadas returned and screamed from every tree.
As gay as any of the cicadas that keep the summer's jubilee in the sunny tree-tops, he sings songs that have nothing in common with psalms, and he needs little provocation to dance.
The female cicadas are quiet enough, but the males are as noisy as so many little boys with new drums.
But within a few weeks from the insects' first appearance their eggs have been laid and the cicadas have all died.
And the earth in some places is like a sieve from the holes made by the cicadas as they came out.
Just before sunset the loud voices of the cicadas began, and after dark lovely moths were attracted by my lamp, while during the night bats flew in and out of my tent.
The swoon of summer is upon the land, the grass is cut, cicadas are chirping overhead.
Cicadas tuned up, clearing their drum-heads, tightening their keys, and at last rousing into the full swing of their ecstatic theme.
To his homeward march, hercicadas shrilled the music of fifes.
Everywhere thecicadas kept the heat vibrating with their strident buzz.
The cicadas were still busy in the trees, and in the dead atmosphere their chirrup seemed to echo half across the world.
For a minute or so there was only to be heard the chirping of the cicadas in the trees outside, and the dry rustle of the wind among the oranges bushes.
Anyhow, for the first time in the history of the world, the purlieus of Grosvenor Square rang with the shrill chirping of cicadas for twenty-four hours on end.
Have thecicadas a double dose of gaiete francaise in their composition, and is this their manner of expressing it?
Twelve of them survived the journey, and as soon as I had arrived, I carefully placed the cicadas on the boughs of the trees in our garden in Green Street, Grosvenor Square.
She might be mistaken; for the stridulation of the cicadas filled the atmosphere with confused sound.
He was witness to that final and rapturous embrace, that caused him to strike his foot nervously against the pebbles, and make that noise that had scared the cicadas into silence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cicadas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
