Definition: 1. A flying insect with a long thin body and four large, usually brightly coloured, wings. 2. A swimming stroke in which you swim on your front and lift both arms forward at the same time while your legs move up and down together.
Use 'butterfly' in a sentence:
1. A gynandromorphy butterfly emerged from its chrysalis at the Natural History Museum in London two weeks ago.
2. What goes on in a cocoon as a caterpillar changes into a butterfly remains one of nature's best kept secrets.
3. Butterflies are fluttering among the flowers.
4. She wore butterfly glasses and had a beehive hairdo.
5. Not every caterpillar and butterfly matched.
6. The little girl is running after a butterfly in the garden.
7. He netted a lot of butterflies.
8. She is a butterfly.
9. He has no bones and he won't turn into a butterfly.
10. It's my butterfly.
11. Surprisingly enough, the butterfly is unable to fly.
12. The butterfly's eye is rather curious.
13. Poor butterfly gets stuck on the spider web.
14. Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.
15. She saw a pretty butterfly, and chased after it.
16. The struggle develops the energy in the butterfly which makes it fly.
17. Do you think butterfly is a type of insect?
18. A butterfly comes out.
19. A better technical term that can well explain this idea is the "Butterfly Effect".
20. I wonder how different the hornet tissues actually are from those of that butterfly.
21. He cuts the chrysalis and the butterfly comes out easily.
22. Catching one butterfly is not easy.
23. A caterpillar changed into a butterfly.
24. It is a very pretty butterfly, with a 2 inch wing span.
25. Two boys were chasing butterflies in a beautiful meadow.
26. The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a butterfly.
27. To his surprise the butterfly is unable to fly.
28. Mary tried to catch the butterfly, but it got away from her.
29. She's like a butterfly. She flits in and out of people's lives.
30. She was third in the 200m butterfly.
31. The butterfly is flying to us.
32. The butterfly is a kind of water sport.
33. Binding styles of Chinese ancient books mainly include bamboo or wooden slips, scroll, concertina binding, chinese path binding, butterfly binding, back-wrapped binding, thread binding and others.
34. Butterflies flitted from flower to flower.
35. I don't like that young lady; she's too much of a social butterfly.
36. The butterfly fluttered from flower to flower.
37. At this moment, she looked like a pretty butterfly flying on the splendid stage. I could hardly believe my eyes.
38. A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.
39. A larva metamorphose into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.
40. The kittens see a butterfly.
41. My garden was covered with so many butterflies that I could hardly see the flowers.
42. Butterfly dances for life.
43. Keep silent, or the butterfly will fly away.
44. The gay colours of the male butterfly help to attract the female and the duller colours of the female make them less likely to be caught by enemies before they have laid their eggs.
45. There are some butterfly specimens in the museum.
46. Freestyle, butterfly, back stroke and breast stroke are four commonly seen strokes in swimming competition.
47. Describe where a butterfly comes from.
48. He thought that at any time, the butterfly might spread its wings, shrink the body.
49. Once again, the press went into overdrive, with headlines such as "Butterfly Killing Corn."
50. On this butterfly egg, the lacy pattern marks the micropyle, where sperm enters.
51. Butterfly is the only stroke I can't do.
52. They use the examples of the peanut bug and the morpho butterfly to explain the concept of revealing coloration.
53. Most of the butterflies perish in the first frosts of autumn.
54. Mature butterflies retain the glycosides in a mature monarch butterfly could be used to determine its place of origin.
55. Caterpillars change into butterflies.
56. Beautiful butterflies hovered above the wild flowers.
57. An exam, or even an exciting social event may produce butterflies in the stomach.
