Crossword-Solution: MANTISES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MANTISES | anagram | SAMNITES |
We have 8 clues for the answer “MANTISES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cannibalistic insects | 1 answer |
| Little prayers? | 1 answer |
| Only insects that can turn their heads to look behind them | 1 answer |
| Preying "prayers" | 1 answer |
| Slender insects | 1 answer |
| They look like they're praying while preying | 1 answer |
| A FROZEN LOOK ON THEIR FACES | 10 answers |
| ANY ANIMAL THAT LIVES BY PREYING ON OTHER ANIMALS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MANTISES (5)
Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in them, or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle-nuts, or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
For any mantis which happened to come a little nearer the white ants in hue or shape would thereby be enabled to make a more secure meal upon his unfortunate victims; and so the very vigilance which the ants exerted against his vile deception would itself react in time against their own kind, by leaving only the most ruthless and indistinguishable of their foes to become the parents of future generations of mantises.
And without the ensuing cannibalism among the hatchlings---out of which several hundred would be reduced to perhaps a dozen---those that survived were more feeble, easier for both the mantises and natural attrition to kill.
Minchin and the bride to the deadly struggles of two quarrelsome "praying-mantises" in his collection.
Quotes with MANTISES (2)
Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the women on the other side parading my beauty of which I was so proud? As I stood there holding my JUDGE MEAT NOT WOMEN picket sign, I recalled all the people who had said to me throughout my life, "You've got such a pretty face." But they never finished the thought. The whole phrase is…
dear samanthai’m sorrywe have to get a divorcei know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain: it’s not youit sure as hell isn’t meit’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects doi love you.. far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our speciesi saw the way you looked at the waiter last nighti know you would never DO anything, you never do but..i saw the way you looked at the waiter last nightdid you know that when a fem…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1997–2022).