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Examples
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We will also remember, forever, the bleating, cicada-like buzz of the South African noisemakers known as bazoozalas or something like that.
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But I don't miss the cicada-like noise that makes older Ducatis sound like they need a mechanic.
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Then he was conscious of the physical warmth of the sun, the faint sweet woods smells, the soothing caress of the breeze, the sleepy cicada-like note of the pine creeper.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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They develop into minute cicada-like jumping-lice.
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Then he was conscious of the physical warmth of the sun, the faint sweet woods smells, the soothing caress of the breeze, the sleepy cicada-like note of the pine creeper.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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Then Rangely possessed himself of a strange African instrument, a crooked gourd, hollowed and strung with twisted tree fibers, and joined to the notes of the mandolin, its weird, cicada-like harshness.
The Pagans Arlo Bates 1884
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Of course, it's not the beams themselves that produce the cicada-like chirps and whirs that crackle over the terrace.
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Pear psylla is a cicada-like pest with a vexing tendency to develop resistance to insecticides.
WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun 2010
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Pear psylla is a cicada-like pest with a vexing tendency to develop resistance to insecticides.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Small gray cicada-like insects flew into the air and hovered; they all had long, feathery white tails, like tiny boas.
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