LARVA in a Sentence

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Example sentences for LARVA, such as:

1. The larvae burrow into cracks in the floor.
2. A larva metamorphoses into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.

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 Meanings and Examples of LARVA
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larva
 n.  newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects before metamorphosis
Classic Sentence:
1  The titi is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed with wings and soaring.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
2  His sliding motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to resemble those twilight larvae which haunt ruins, and which ancient Norman legends call the Alleurs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  Everybody knows that the butterfly emerges from the pupa, and the pupa from a quite different thing called a larva, and that from the butterfly's egg.
2  A larva metamorphoses into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.
3  The larvae burrow into cracks in the floor.