How to Use praying mantis in a Sentence

praying mantis

noun

• This praying mantis from France hasn’t been seen since 1860.
  — John R. Platt, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2021
• This short collection of essays finds the good in the small things, from birthdays to the praying mantis.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• Parasitic wasps, lady beetles and the king of the hill — the praying mantis — all feed on those bad guys.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 June 2023
• Danes' eyes widen and her head tilts quizzically to one side like a praying mantis.
  — Txema Yeste, Marie Claire, 9 Jan. 2017
• Unlike her mother, the little girl was not afraid of the praying mantis and was happy to have made a new bug friend.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
• Some of her photos capture a praying mantis eating the head of her mate.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2023
• The praying mantis is an insect that sometimes eats its mate.
  — WSJ, 16 June 2022
• Reflective of Minecraft building blocks, schools of fish, sharks, and praying mantises snaked from screen to screen in a sea of blue.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Creepy Crawler Pumpkin Line the walkway to your front door with bugs of all kind — beetles, spiders, praying mantis, and more.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2023
• Somewhat less common is the sale of live beetles or praying mantis species.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022
• In fact, the praying mantis continued to remain on Robles even after Phillies scored three runs to take the lead.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• But the teensy brain of a praying mantis can see depth in these stimuli easily.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
• Well, when put that way, the whole praying mantis explosion almost sounds.. cute?
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 12 Dec. 2019
• These prey-catching arms look somewhat like the front legs of a praying mantis, which gives these creatures their name – mantis shrimps.
  — Thomas Cronin, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
• From a distance, the dead leaf praying mantis resembles its namesake: brown, crispy and still.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
• In many parts of the world the praying mantis is encouraged because of their appetite for insect pests that damage crops.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• An armadillo, a praying mantis and a snake have appeared.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 20 June 2019
• One other invertebrate, the praying mantis, evolved this way, as proven in their own tiny 3D glasses study from about a year ago.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
• Hoisted in the air and surrounded by scaffolding, the object’s two appendages stick out and run down its sides like the long, slender legs of a praying mantis.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• Because get this: While many insects may see in 3D, experiments so far have only been able to show that for one insect, and that is the praying mantis.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
• This pale-skinned home invader has long finger-like digits instead of toes, and stalks through Brynn’s bedroom like a praying mantis.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
• Unlike their magical namesake, the praying mantises of the Atlantic Forest are experts in the art of blending in.
  — Magnus Wennman, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Next to them are a rabbit and a praying mantis, miniature painted in various layers of enamel, all set against an agate dial.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 26 July 2022
• Viewers who could tolerate a photograph of a praying mantis shredding a larva drew the line at seeing a snake swallow a mouse whole.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2023
• In the end, Smith prevails in her battle, as a praying mantis devours another behind the closing credits.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2023
• And surprisingly, so does the tiny-brained praying mantises.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
• Just as the female praying mantis eats her mate after copulation, so too can borrowers and lenders fall swiftly out of love.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• Maryland is currently home to five species of praying mantis, but only one is native, which is the Carolina mantis.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2022
• Kreuze has been scooping the hordes of mantises into a giant box with the hope of giving them to someone who actually wants to live with praying mantises.
  — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 9 Jan. 2019
• There, a massive machine resembling a one-armed praying mantis was drilling 12-foot-long steel bolts into the treeless mountainside.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024