Locusts

Usage examples of cicadas.

With countless of the cicadas all trilling together, you can sometimes hear the harmonic rise and fall of their song moving through the forest in a wave.

As a boy, the emergence of the cicadas had seemed like just about the most amazing phenomenon he could imagine, and waiting seventeen years until they returned seemed like the hardest thing he would ever have to do.

For all he knew, the beast could be out in the woods watching, using the noise of the cicadas to cover its footsteps as it approached their shelter.

The surrounding strum of the cicadas somehow made him feel more vulnerable.

As the three of them quietly slipped through the graveyard, cicadas chirped incessantly from the darkness all around.

Even though the heavy drapes were closed over the window, Richard could hear Ihe ceaseless chorus of the cicadas outside.

It seemed remarkable that the cicadas had come ten times in her life and Nicci had never even realized it.

She could see fastened on the bark of those trees the split-open, empty skins of cicadas that had molted.

With all the people gone, fleeing for their lives before the hordes of invaders, the city was no more than an empty, lifeless husk, like the shed skin of the cicadas that had recently emerged.

He couldn't stay down in Caska, forever listening to the cicadas sing.

It had said something about when the cicadas awakened, the final and deciding battle was upon them.

The cicadas aren't coming up through the dirt, they're coming up from under that stone.

Even though the heavy drapes were closed over the window, Richard could hear the ceaseless chorus of the cicadas outside.

They scrambled down a steep hillside, the sound of the stream and the whining of cicadas growing louder as they descended.

Gnats swarmed around her face as she walked, the cicadas humming their tuneless mating song.