noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
praying mantis
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
pray
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We learned the swift, circular dance of the praying mantis .
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Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fascinated by this display, Wong Long captured the mantis and took it home with him.
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For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass, he wrote.
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He was very tall, perhaps six foot five, all elbow and forearm, like an enormous ginger praying mantis .
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I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.
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Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis .
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Neither the eye of an insect or a human is likely to detect the deception until the mantis moves.
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We learned the swift, circular dance of the praying mantis .