How to Use locust in a Sentence

locust

noun

• Thomas was here for all the locust blights and plagues of boils.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• The spruce, maple, and locust trees filling the rolling hills are lush.
  — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 25 Feb. 2021
• The locust plague that hit East Africa in 2020 was two years in the making.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• There had been no warning the locusts were on their way.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• The locusts moved west and south, reaching their zenith in Kenya in the early months of this year.
  — Neha Wadekar, Quartz Africa, 10 Apr. 2020
• Raise your free arm straight in front of you or back along your side like in locust pose.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2020
• That number dropped by 20% when a single locust was put on the job.
  — Brian Niemietz, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• The era felt something akin to end times, minus the horsemen and locusts.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Experts have warned that the number of locusts if unchecked could grow 500 times by June.
  — Fox News, 26 Feb. 2020
• There’s even a mutant locust plague that recalls … The Swarm?!
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
• The locust swarms hang like shimmering dark clouds on the horizon in some places.
  — Elias Meseret, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• The scent of locust flowers filled the early summer air.
  — Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2020
• Still, no flamethrower would ever get all the locusts—and no microwave weapon would get all the drones.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
• That would be something like a flamethrower against a horde locusts.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
• Female locusts only lay their eggs when the ground is damp.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• Soon the locusts had reached Ethiopia, where some farmers lost their entire crop.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
• This is my favorite place to look: A scrubby, overgrown field with some browse, berries, locust trees (deer love the pods), and the like.
  — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 24 Jan. 2023
• In the silence a summer locust sings its harsh, passionate song to the heat.
  — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2021
• So were many of the nails holding her together: spikes of hard locust.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• The nexus of the locust breeding is around the Red Sea plains in the borderlands between Sudan and Eritrea.
  — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• There, among the ruckus of frogs and locusts, a moment absent of human sound fell upon us.
  — David Frese, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
• A storm blows apart the family’s home, a plague of locusts devours the crops, and people nearly starve to death.
  — Lisa See, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Throughout the night, a swarm of locusts descended on the game, buzzing around the players and getting buried beneath the snow.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Reynolds herself connects the event to a reference to locusts that opens the Book of Joel in the Old Testament.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
• No reason to watch out for frogs and locusts over a preseason scope job.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
• What has some people concerned about the renovation is that the city would have to tear out the 15 old, large locust trees on the mall.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 13 Mar. 2018
• As soon as James reached the platform a rope was thrown over his head and he was carried about 40 yards to a small locust tree near the blacksmith shop.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 July 2018
• Police units fired tear gas and bullets but the locusts didn’t disperse.
  — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• The last living Rocky Mountain locust was seen on the Canadian prairie in 1902.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
• Just in the past year, swarms of locusts the size of whole cities descended on Ethiopia, powerful bush fires ravaged Australia, and massive floods inundated Indonesia.
  — Kathy Baughman McLeod, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024