caterpillar

Example Sentences

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“This is something I wrote for school. It’s about a caterpillar.”

From Literature

A boat that resembles an army tank, complete with caterpillar tracks and a periscope, slides past us on the left, putting us dead last.

From Literature

They are being carried by Crawler‑Transporter‑2, a low‑slung, tank‑like vehicle on caterpillar tracks that Nasa built in 1965 to inch Saturn V Moon rockets to the pad.

From BBC

Out on this windswept fell, she felt exposed, like a caterpillar dangling on a thread.

From Literature

At the same time, rainfall can knock caterpillars off plants, reducing the main food source that growing chicks rely on to meet their high energy demands.

From Science Daily