Thus in the Lias we find dragonflies "apparently as highly specialised as to-day, no less than four tribes being present.
It is in the family of dragonflies (order Neuroptera) that we first meet with numerous cases of distinctive sexual coloration.
Dragonflies appeared in mid-air, martins left their nests among the beams, parrakeets crossed over from their roosts, and swifts met them coming from their sleeping quarters in hollow trees.
Green dragonflies whirled here and there, and great blue-black bees fumbled in and out of the hibiscus, yellowed with pollen and too busy to stop a second in their day-long labor.
Over the stagnant pools in those open spaces dragonflies hovered, fellows that moved, when we approached, like lines of red light.
Butterflies are continually crossing the ship, and dragonflies and great wasps and hornets are hawking over us.
Next were the dragonflies which hunted them, some with wingspreads as wide as two feet.
Then the lizard-birds, hunting the dragonflies and anything else that could he nipped without fighting back.
Here, too, they saw the first sign of active life in the valley: a flight of giant dragonflies skimming over the water.
The dragonflies feasted until they were unable to devour even a single one more of their chosen prey.
Burl turned aside and went on, leaving the dragonflies still at their massacre and the flies absorbed and ecstatic at their feast.
Dragonflies glinted in swift and angular flight, the metallic sheen of their bodies flashing in the redness.
Midge, mayfly, and caddisfly larvae, and naiads ofdragonflies and damselflies are also consumed.
Aaron sprung from his seat, and made his salaam, and the Dragonfliesbundled out of the cabin again.
Millipedes, scorpions, beetles and maybugs existed, and huge dragonflies preyed on them.
Dragonflies would not hover over dry places, and butterflies became scarce in proportion to the flowers, while no land yields over three crops of Indian relics.
The walls were covered with cocoons; moths and dragonflies were pinned everywhere.
She took all the dragonflies and butterflies she could, and when she went over the list for the man of India, she found, to her amazement, that with Philip's help she once more had it complete save a pair of Yellow Emperors.
Elnora said to her mother, "If you don't mind, I believe I will go into the woods pasture beside Sleepy Snake Creek and see if I can catch some dragonflies or moths.
Without uttering a sound or moving a muscle, so far as I could see, she remained for half an hour before she accepted my taking a distant seat and turning my attention to dragonflies as an apology, and ventured to visit her nest again.
In that mass of buzzing flies even the most voracious appetite must be sated, but the dragonflies kept on.
The wriggling grubs of the dragonflies reappeared.
Dragonflies buzzed over his head in their swift and angular flight, the metallic luster of their bodies glistening in the rosy light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dragonflies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
