beetle

“There’s a beetle that emerges on the cusp of summer. It has lots of colors. Blue, gold, purple. It looks like a turtle,” she tells a befuddled Rhaenyra.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

It cited persistently weak wood markets, difficulties with log supply related to wildfires and the wood-boring mountain pine beetle, as well as the U.S. duties and tariff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Others include the adonis blue butterfly, the armed nomad bee and the red-tailed mason bee, the shining pot beetle and the large scabious mining bee.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Or could it be a gold, labradorite beetle ring from Awe Inspired’s newest jewelry collaboration with Jhené Aiko?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

This blue girl had Sarai’s face, and she wasn’t wearing some gown of beetle wings and daggers, but the same lace-edged white slip Sarai had worn the first night.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

At barely more than five feet tall, and with a bushy white beard and beetled brow, magician James “The Amazing” Randi resembles nothing so much as an angry elf.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015

Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret.

From Time Magazine Archive

Napoleon, at the Pyramids, thrust one hand over his diaphragm, thickened his neck, beetled his brows, said: "Men, from the summits of these Pyramids 40 centuries look down upon you."

From Time Magazine Archive

Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The driver of the car was a powerful fellow with beetled brows and scowling face.

From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Paul Laune

This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2017

From almost anywhere in La Rinconada, you look up and you see her: La Bella Durmiente, Sleeping Beauty, an enormous glacier beetling above the town.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

His unusual actorly physiognomy—the ruddy, transparent skin, the bulky but far from graceless body, the beetling blond eyebrows—lent itself to all manner of physical and gestural shape-shifting.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014

Each looked like a character the other might have drawn, Maurice with his fireplug body and beetling brows and Robert with his shock of Wild Thing hair.

From Slate ● May 9, 2012

Clive Pike, to my left, eyes beetling bigger than humanly possible, g-force ribbling his face.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell