Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: caterpillars
IPA transcription: [k'ætəp,ɪlɚz]
Usage examples
  • I don't care who the man is, snails and caterpillars always will lurk in close to the stump of cabbages in that tantalizing way."
  • Though in the grove a great deal, I never ran into but one cobweb, and was conscious of the pleasant freedom from falling caterpillars.
  • I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
  • The Mullein moth is sure to find them out, and it behoves the careful gardener to look for and destroy the caterpillars, or he may some day find, instead of his stately Mulleins, tall stems only clothed with unsightly grey rags.
  • The caterpillars are easily caught when quite small or when rather large; but midway in their growth, when three-quarters of an inch long, they are wary, and at the approach of the avenging gardener they will give a sudden wriggling jump, and roll down into the lower depths of the large foliage, where they are difficult to find.
  • First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.