25 examples of dragonfly in sentences

One of them caught her up and put her on the counter of the bar, where, no whit at a loss, she curveted and spun among the bottles and the glasses as lightly as a dragonfly dips and whirls along a summer brook.

All across the meadow lands the hot air danced and quivered, and in the limpid waters of the lowland brook, spanned by a little stone bridge, the fish hung motionless above the yellow gravel, and the dragonfly sat quite still, perched upon the sharp tip of a spike of the rushes, with its wings glistening in the sun.

Fairies are tiny little critters with wings like those on one of our dragonflies.

MacDonald's face was flushed and his eyes snapped like dragonflies as he pointed to a tiny button.

Now a butterfly fluttered past me, and now a dragonfly.

They looked like a bed of white water lilies and he like a black dragonfly skimming among the lilies.

Antony had loved these things since he was a child,dragonflies with their lamp-like eyes of luminous horn, moths with pall-like wings that filled the world with silence as you looked at them, sleepy as deathloved them with the passion of a Japanese artist who delights to carve them on quaint nuggets of metal.

Like dragonflies, the hansoms hover, With jewelled eyes, to catch the lover; The streets are full of lights and loves, Soft gowns, and flutter of soiled doves.

Sun: a snake falling back to the bank of a stream, a dragonfly in its mouth, dazzling, iridescent.

A dragonfly darted back and forth above the stream.

It was falling back to the ground before I could focus, the dragonfly in its mouth.

The snake caught the dragonfly in midair without coiling.

R110143. SEE Randolph, Vance. Life among the dragonflies.

© 30Apr25, A856423. R110143, 10Apr53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) Life among the dragonflies.

Two studies: Child and cuckoo, op.107, no.12 and Dragonflies in sunshine, op.107, no.13.

Two studies: Child and cuckoo, op.107, no.12 and Dragonflies in sunshine, op.107, no.13.

R110143. SEE Randolph, Vance. Life among the dragonflies.

© 30Apr25, A856423. R110143, 10Apr53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) Life among the dragonflies.

Two studies: Child and cuckoo, op.107, no.12 and Dragonflies in sunshine, op.107, no.13.

Two studies: Child and cuckoo, op.107, no.12 and Dragonflies in sunshine, op.107, no.13.

"The paper the captain selected for your room," continued Mr. Tredgold, severely, "was decorated with branches of an unknown flowering shrub, on the top twig of which a humming-bird sat eating a dragonfly.

Before the report of the pistol had died out, the yellow-winged Dragonfly soared upward from Paul's hand and darted like a streak across the red tape, clearing it at the highest altitude yet achieved by any of the models.

Now he felt sure that this black cherry of Bosnia, this girl with the waist of a dragonfly, was his.

Mr. Tiffles suddenly stopped, like a dragonfly in the midst of his angular dartings, and said: "Since your scissors are not to be found, it is fortunate that I have a pocket pair, which are always at your service."

Would you crush the dragonfly, the moth, or the bee, because its days are so few?

25 examples of  dragonfly  in sentences