Gnats are parasites in the same manner as leeches, since, like them, they suck the blood, and live at the expense of others.
The biting ofgnats and mosquitoes renders them less fearful of the approach of man.
Occasionally he would flutter against the windows, and give his attention to the spiders and gnats which nestled in the corners of the panes.
Sunny days in winter tempt people to walk abroad and to resort to the same places which winter-gnats would choose for their gambols.
Here, too, the stray Swallow would be found; but in dark stormy weather the gnats and the Swallow would stay at home, and the ornithologist would have little temptation to do otherwise.
A few occasionally remain with us all the year, feeding on winter gnats and the pupA| of small insects, but remaining wholly silent.
That region of the farthest North, whose very brief summer is not the less infested with gnats and flies, finds a benefactor in the useful insect which industriously hunts the swarms for man's advantage.
Father, why is it that when gnats bite you their stomachs get red?
The gnats and the dampness of the night prevented his sleeping.
She stared at the dancing gnatsand flicked at them dreamily with her glove.
The trees were swaying with a soft unheard whisper of wind, and in the deepest shadow companies of gnats were playing hide-and-seek with each other.
Does the sun think of the gnats in his beams, that live by his light?
Your great and luminous heart so resembles the heavens that I am like the gnats which flutter about the torches of a fete and burn themselves; are they to be punished for their error?
But now that you are here, there is opportunity to right that wrong.
Senor Carson," said Quesada impulsively, "you and Don Manuel and his cuadrilla have done a wrong in pursuing me.
The nestlings are supported in common like those of their congeners, with gnats and other small insects; and sometimes they are fed with libellulae (dragon-flies) almost as long as themselves.
This species feeds much on little coleoptera, as well as on gnats and flies: and often settles on dug ground, or paths, for gravels to grind and digest its food.
It was lonely, very lonely, lying there staring at the empty sky with only the stinging gnats for company, and soon my limbs began to ache.
Then my absence from their feast will vex the gnats of the river," a saying at which Houman and others with him laughed obsequiously.
Here and there perfect clouds of gnats were dancing with their peculiar flight; swallows were still busy darting about, and now and then a leather-winged bat fluttered over them seeking its insect food.
In the shade cast by the bridge, trout rose at the dancing gnats and flies.
You and I have posed rather extensively on the exalted side of things so far, have strained at gnats and finished up by swallowing a remarkably full-grown camel.
As long as we remained at a low altitude camping out was not an unalloyed pleasure, because the tormenting gnats were exasperating, and at night the humidity was great, making the bed and everything else damp.
They had hunting falcons and dogs about as large as gnats and fleas.
Then it leaped into the bed and hunted up some nits and gnats in the folds of the linen, which it devoured.
Yet he suffered because there were always so manygnats and fleas in his room that he could not sleep at night.
Then the fleas and gnats began to rise in the air; but were all slain by the falcons.
It is rare on the Orinoco to see real gnats by day; while at the Rio Magdalena we were stung night and day, except from noon till about two o'clock.
You no longer suffer during the day the torment of mosquitos; and the long-legged gnats (zancudos) become rare during the night.
The frequency of gnats and mosquitos characterises unhealthy climates only so far as the development and multiplication of these insects depend on the same causes that give rise to miasmata.
As the mosquitos and gnats pass two-thirds of their lives in the water, it is not surprising that these noxious insects become less numerous in proportion as you recede from the banks of the great rivers which intersect the forests.
In fact, the mother gnats construct rafts of eggs, and each egg is added as a separate timber of the vessel, till a boat-like structure is produced.
Defn: Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera.
Morris removed his helmet and slapped at the buzzing gnats now emerging in the evening air, hoping to obscure his thoughts.
As it steered into the bay, Jacques slapped at the buzzing gnats around them and yelled out a Spanish plea that they were marooned seamen, near death.
When we get up the Aruwimi we'll find little bees about as big as gnats but a whole lot worse, and it'll need thick nets to keep 'em out.
His head was protected, but mosquitoes andgnats settled on his bound hands until his arms seemed to be dipped in living flame.
Let us walk a little bit while we can still see, for we must collect sticks to keep enough fire going all night to ward off the mosquitoes and gnats in the world.
There was a regular deep humming from the gnats and flies; the twittering of a few distant birds; but with these exceptions all was solemn silence.
It brought them in millions, and with them tiny persistent gnats and many small coffin-shaped beetles and hosts of pulpy, unwholesome-looking moths of many sizes and as many colours.
The mosquitoes and the gnatspreyed upon him; the beetles and the moths were lured by the flame to a violent end.
Gnats and flies of all kinds buzzed in the heavy air, or settled in black knots on the walls and the rafters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gnats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
