FIREFLY


Meaning of FIREFLY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Anne's husband, Cuthbert, said there'd be fireflies tonight.

Her firefly eyes clicked open and closed, and along her forehead the horizontal grooves had deepened into sharp narrow ruts.

Since glow-worms, fireflies, electric eels and many fish exhibit a similar phenomenon, the statement is not unrealistic.

So many green sparkles, so many fireflies.

The firefly of a psychic spirit gleaming in the nightscape of existence: ah, that he could pinpoint by and large.

The crickets had started up; next the fireflies would alight, but not as many as when Petey was small.

The dark wood was now lit up with lurid flashes of artillery and the firefly sparkle of rifles.....

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