Gadflies in a Sentence
  • Flies, lice, gadflies and mosquitoes are the worst of the insect plagues.
  • Gadflies and mosquitoes are a veritable plague around the lakes of the lowlands in the hot weather.
  • Mosquitoes are rarely troublesome; gadflies, and a large spider (hangeyu), which spins a web resembling golden silk, are common, as are scorpions and centipeces.