entomology

in a sentence

My daughter shares that fascination with things that creep and crawl, and I tell her that a career in entomology awaits her.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

"The study of insects is called 'entomology,"' Mrs. V said.†  (source) Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, 2010

Entomology smells like mothballs and oil: a preservative that, Dr. Geffard explains, is called naphthalene.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

A cherubic entomologist with a specimen box?†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Later on, thinking that Amaranta Ursula was continuing with her repairs so that her hands would not be idle, he decided to assemble the handsome bicycle, on which the front wheel was much larger than the rear one, and he dedicated himself to the capture and curing of every native insect he could find in the region, which he sent in jam jars to his former professor of natural history at the University of Liege where he had done advanced work in entomology, although his main vocation was that of aviator.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

For I had the post of name finder in our Entomological Society; and was scolded severely by Thoby, I remember, for slackness.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past, 1939

He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.†  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873

He's an entomologist; stupid.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

When I learned that the missing man was devoted to entomology the identification was complete.†  (source) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902

He was a greater Prince than any there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beautiful Countess of Belladonna, nee de Glandier, whose husband (the Count Paolo della Belladonna), so well known for his brilliant entomological collections, had been long absent on a mission to the Emperor of Morocco.†  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

It is a significant fact, stated by entomologists—I find it in Kirby and Spence—that "some insects in their perfect state, though furnished with organs of feeding, make no use of them"; and they lay it down as "a general rule, that almost all insects in this state eat much less than in that of larvae.†  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

The forensic entomologist has already collected his samples.†  (source) James Patterson, Kiss the Girls, 1995

Entomology was his special study.†  (source) Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900