What is "gnats"

Usage examples of "gnats".

The third was most alluring, the surface of it savory with metals the gnats must have mined.

Minute metal shells, warm enough perhaps to tempt her hunter sons, but soft inside, the infesting gnats sickening to taste and unfit for anything.

That odious electronic stench was unabated, but the gnats had swarmed no nearer.

Surely, even with its own untrained perceptions, it could evade any hazard from the gnats and find ores rich enough to feed its siblings when they hatched.

Though the gnats themselves could hardly harm it, it was blundering into trouble through its own sweet simplicity.

The gnats had strung their moronic web beneath a circle of tiny moonlets moving fast enough to hold it suspended.

Laughing at the imagined antics of the gnats in the comic interludes, she tried the ring of the old heroic meters and began searching out metaphors and fit similes to celebrate the courage and the triumph of her first-hatched forager.

If these preposterous gnats were really daring to attack the hive, here was stuff to fill another comic canto.

She met the laggard gnats again, and watched her heroic forager giving his tiny life to serve the hive.

From the deck Sanglant could see five ships, one ahead and four behind, as well as a few fires burning on the strand upriver, but only the foolhardy or the thick-skinned ventured to shore, where gnats and stinging flies swarmed.

gnats and tiny flies swarmed, and she batted them away and was relieved, really, to step past the stones into the ring because, for a miracle, no gnats or flies passed that invisible line.

Because ignoring them was not an option, once the Hammers had opened a hole in the enemy line, the Gnats could terrorize the enemy from within.

Feeling safe behind the wall of Hammers that slipped into the brush, Ryuhito advanced in the midst of the Gnats like a teacher leading anxious children on a field trip.

Yipping and chittering like homicidal gerbils, the Gnats crashed on into the underbrush.

He saw them scampering up the boles of trees, snapping off limbs and showering the ground with bark fragments, ft occurred to him that the Gnats had always taken their cue in identifying the enemy by what the Hammers had assaulted, so the Gnats gleefully started to wage war on the jungle itself.