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n. (plural of water bug English)
Usage examples of "water bugs".
Out in the tall grass, behemoth insects, called Zanderguls, elephant-sized water bugs, moved slowly through the veldt.
We had not yet cleared Wilmington's harbor, and small pircttas and sculls darted past like water bugs, whipping in and out between the larger, slower-moving craft.
Until the water bugs came and ate its eyes into raw wet sockets, and the tissues bloated with nectar.
In the slow eddies of the river, even the fish swam with manifest despair, barely able to muster enough enthusiasm to chase tadpoles or water bugs.
Children skipped like water bugs around and through the surging mass of adults, laughing because they could not comprehend the poverty in which they dwelt, finding joy in a muddy puddle or an empty liter bottle of 7-Up.
More gnats hung in the air, and a group of water bugs skated across the surface of the water.
The lake and canals swarmed with canoes and barges, supplying the city like a fleet of water bugs, while the broad causeways streamed with coaches, litters, horsemen, and pedestrians.
They looked like ticks, the kind that had to be kept off people and dogs, but these had to be water bugs, or at least capable of living in water.