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Caterpillar in sentence

21 examples of Caterpillar in a sentence

In this garden, when the caterpillar transforms into a chrysalis, this involves some struggle.
Just as a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, the malaria parasite transforms itself like that seven times in its life cycle.
Why, for example, does this caterpillar start violently thrashing about when another insect gets close to it and those white cocoons that it seems to be standing guard over?
This caterpillar was attacked by a parasitic wasp which laid eggs inside it.
The eggs hatched and the young wasps devoured the caterpillar alive before bursting out of its body.
Now, the caterpillar didn't die.
This caterpillar is a head-banging zombie bodyguard defending the offspring of the creature that killed it.
A caterpillar's mouth.
All of a sudden, we see this Monarch caterpillar munching on this plant, and we realize that there it is, and it's in this empty lot in Chattanooga.
Or another analogy would be, a caterpillar has been turned into a butterfly.
Driving a caterpillar in the LA City Dump, while hoping to break into the movie game?
That, and the magnificent caterpillar eyebrows on the old evil dude who was trying to steal Steiner's invention.
Watch them as they pounce, crawl along the ground (on their backs or stomachs) like a caterpillar, fly through the sky, climb buildings, hide and spring from trees, throw about ninja stars, role out blue welcome mats, disappear in smoke bombs, make a lot of swoosh noises with their blades and quickly sneaking or trotting about on their toes.
There's a tribe of men who steal the skull from Gramps when he had just gotten it back thanks to Charlie and Jesse's "trading" a piece of raw meat for the skull(the Ptierodactyl actually enters the world from his jungle as does a caterpillar dog! when Jesse falls off the tree trying to pry the skull away from the friggin' bird).
Why is there a caterpillar with a dog's head or an Aztec skull with powers to keep Gramps alive?
It's supposed to be funny, but it just clunks along like a tank with lead caterpillar treads, and it goes nowhere fast.
Mortals see death as the gateway to true life, much as a caterpillar might look at a butterfly.
And people on the Tibetan Plateau in Bhutan make a living selling caterpillar fungus to the traditional-medicine industry.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
The immense steamship, towed by a powerful tug, which, in front ofher, looked like a caterpillar, came slowly and majestically out of theharbour.
The beggar turned round; there was surprise, recognition, a lighting up of the two countenances, and so forth; then, without paying the slightest heed in the world to the spectators, the hosier and the wretched being began to converse in a low tone, holding each other's hands, in the meantime, while the rags of Clopin Trouillefou, spread out upon the cloth of gold of the dais, produced the effect of a caterpillar on an orange.