Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sand-flies.
Examples
-
A third of veterans of the 1991 war experienced fatigue, muscle or joint pain, sleeping problems, rashes and breathing troubles, according to the researchers, who found evidence linking the problems to an anti-nerve gas agent given to troops, pesticides used to control sand-flies, and the nerve-gas sarin that troops may have been exposed to during the demolition of a weapons depot.
Coming to Terms With 2008
-
There are no walks; and if you go one way, you sink knee-deep in mangrove swamps; another you are covered with sand-flies; and a third is crawling up a steep mountain by a mule-path to get a glimpse of the sea beyond the lagoons which surround Santos.
-
The flies of various kinds, mosquitoes, sand-flies, and borruchutes, are at you day and night; and if you jump up in the night, it is only to squash beetles.
-
Passed a miserable night, tormented by mosquitoes and sand-flies.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
-
Passed a miserable night, tormented by mosquitoes and sand-flies.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
-
Even before dark it was alive with mosquitoes, and the fleas hopped on the mats like sand-flies.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
-
At our first stopping-place sand-flies were very abundant at night, penetrating to every part of the body, and producing a more lasting irritation than mosquitoes.
-
On arriving here we were delighted to find the house free from sand-flies or mosquitoes, but in the plantations where my daily walks led me, the day-biting mosquitoes swarmed, and seemed especially to delight in attaching my poor feet.
-
He was exceedingly courteous, ordering his people to bring me a stool and one for himself, and then a fly-whisk to battle with the evening cloud of sand-flies.
-
It promised sand-flies, the prime pest of this region; a tall amphitheatre of trees on a dune to the west excluded the sea-breeze, and northwards
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.