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How to use cockchafer in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cockchafer? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Although the distances covered by the cockchafer may not be great, the regularity of the phenomenon is characteristic of true migration.
With alarming suddenness, the sound is upon me, in the room and loud around my ears as a cockchafer flies past my head and settles on the books by a lamp.
A close-up of a cockchafer, or May bug, earned 50-year old ecologist Dean Heward, from Derwent Valley in Gateshead, the Wildlife Image of the Year award.
The Cockchafer, sometimes called the May Bug, is the commonest and has the largest grub of the six species, that can grow up to 50mm and has a big appetite to match.
Examples from Classical Literature
Now he wanted to know exactly how often his son had visited the cockchafer?
The only thing was that the cockchafer, whatever one might say about it, was a public-house.
It was so very humiliating to be hung up there like a cockchafer at the end of a pin.
Nor did I like my little sister Eliane into whom the cockchafer had grown.
Then he reached down in his pocket again and drew out a cockchafer.
We only once met with the cockchafer in Scotland, at Sorn, in Ayrshire.
Loman was returning from one of his now frequent visits to the cockchafer.
He returned with him to Maltby, and there spent an hour in the cockchafer.
First came a vial of ant-infused gin, followed by a shot glass of warm cricket consomme, then an hors d'oeuvre of cockchafer butter and herb crisp.
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