Crossword-Solution: FIREFLIES 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Fireflies pl. of Firefly

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"___ in the Garden" (Robert Frost poem) 1 answer
Airborne beetles 1 answer
Lightning bugs 1 answer
They have tail lights 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with FIREFLIES (5)

After he left Marie at her gate, he wandered about the fields all night, till morning put out the fireflies and the stars.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The fireflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch’s token.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Then indeed his troubles vanished, for there was the princess coming dancing towards him, in a dress that shone like gold, and with shoes that glimmered through the grass like fireflies.
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 2008
Are you the man?" With the fall of night, the street they faced had become still, save for an infrequent squawk of irritation on the part of one of the passing automobiles, gadding for the most part silently, like fireflies.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 2004
But down where the fireflies are like eyes, And the damps shudder, and the mists rise, The hemp-stalks stand up toward the skies.
Young Adventure Stephen Vincent Benet 1995

Quotes with FIREFLIES (3)

And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become something even more beautiful - a pulsing, red-hot ember of covenant love in marriage. Why did He do it? For the same reason that He made sunsets and mountain ranges and fireflies! Because He's good. Because He wants to give us a million different opportunities to see just how wonderful He is.
Joshua Harris Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
Sharing your kindness sparks understanding all around. Then like fireflies in the night, twinkling love surrounds you.
Amy Leigh Mercree
I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burning green as they flew, and some further away, who seemed to be flashing white. And in the sky above them a continual roil of distant summer lightning (the storm distant enough that it was silent) burned and flashed and illuminate…
Neil Gaiman
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (2012–2020).