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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.

    Aprilia Mana 850, BMW F800S and Ducati Monster 696 2008

  • 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

  • They develop into minute cicada-like jumping-lice.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Small gray cicada-like insects flew into the air and hovered; they all had long, feathery white tails, like tiny boas.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

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