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Example sentences for "horseflies"

Lexicographically close words:
horsebacke; horseblock; horsed; horsedealer; horseflesh; horsehair; horsehide; horsehoofs; horsekeeper; horseless
  1. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.

  2. The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze flies.

  3. This was the end of the function, and the poor cows, who had been somewhat impatiently whisking away the mosquitoes and horseflies for the last half hour, were at length allowed to proceed.

  4. Two telyegi stood awaiting our pleasure at the door, each with its pair of small Finn ponies ready harnessed and impatiently whisking away the horseflies with their long tails.

  5. Hundreds of flies and horseflies rose buzzing when I entered the room, and I had to engage in a very unequal war against them before I could settle down on the hard planks.

  6. My ponies, driven mad by the abus, the terrible horseflies of Yezo, constantly threw themselves down and rolled on the sand.

  7. Small irritating horseflies buzz in the nostrils of the horses and drive them frantic.

  8. When day had resumed its sway we rode in the morning air through swarms of flies, stinging gnats, and horseflies up over the Tagu-la and down the Tambak valley.


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horseflies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.