How to Use mantis in a Sentence

mantis

noun

• What, though, to make of the mantis, owner of the cyclopean ear?
  — Stephanie Pain, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• The devil’s flower mantis moves its forelegs back and forth and clicks, like a haunted clock.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
• The Mayan lichen mantis lives on tree bark and perfers medium-sized, smooth-bark trees.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
• The Congo green mantis opens its mouth, shows its colorful forelegs and spreads its wings.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
• Other mantis species can also resemble twigs and even dead leaves.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2023
• Playing out over the past months, that task is being done with what in the distance appears as a praying mantis.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 July 2017
• The mantis arches above the grass, head swiveled impossibly.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Without hesitating, the hornet rushed the mantis and bit off its head.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 27 May 2020
• The adult female mantis lays her massive egg case, known as an ootheca, on twigs, stems, rocks, or even the sides of buildings or fence posts.
  — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2023
• The mantises more than most seem almost to have an eerie awareness of the giants with their cameras standing around them.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
• Yet the stick-mimicking mantises of Africa can be nearly as long as your forearm.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Instead, Sesko — all 6ft 5in of him — arrived, mantis-like, by e-scooter.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
• Some crustaceans have excellent color vision (like mantis shrimps), but that may not be the case with the coconut crab.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2018
• At the entrance, a 55-foot-tall praying mantis spews flames and swivels its head as if searching for its next piece of kebab meat.
  — Andrea Sachs, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2017
• To test how praying mantises see the world, scientists have built the first cinema just for insects.
  — National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2017
• Preying mantises have reached full size — some as large as five inches — have mated, eaten their mates, and made egg masses all over the world.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• During spring and summer the praying mantis is leaf green, which is an adaptation that allows it to be camouflaged.
  — Patrice Hanlon, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
• Its praying-mantis-like headlights and conservative lines, however, look more last gen than next.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 July 2017
• Praying mantis eggs, laid in insulating foam cases last fall before the mother mantis died, are also about to hatch.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2024
• Nini brings her famous praying-mantis routine to the Drag Race stage for the talent show, to some girls’ chagrin.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
• But new research adds a strange anatomical wrinkle to the love life of an Amazonian species called the dragon mantis.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2021
• Cricket ears detect low frequencies; mantis and moth ears are tuned to ultrasound, way beyond anything humans (or their dogs) can hear.
  — Stephanie Pain, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• Like some rare breed of albino praying mantis, Meredith tends to lurk in the dark, elegant yet frightening.
  — Peter Debruge, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• Popular theories are that the spider is masquerading as the threatening head of a snake or praying mantis.
  — National Geographic, 16 Dec. 2016
• There's a blue morpho butterfly, a Hercules beetle, and a Chinese mantis.
  — Patrice J. Williams, Parents, 12 July 2024
• Maryland is currently home to five species of praying mantis, but only one is native, which is the Carolina mantis.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2022
• The findings could even inspire robots that navigate the world like the mantises—save for grabbing prey with spiky arms and decapitating them.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
• Turning the conversation to his pride in his teammates is as familiar a Horford move as one of his praying-mantis corner threes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
• Kreuze has been scooping the hordes of mantises into a giant box with the hope of giving them to someone who actually wants to live with praying mantises.
  — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 9 Jan. 2019
• Look no further than the camouflage abilities of the dead leaf butterfly, the flower mantis, or the freaky vanishing octopus for proof.
  — Bethany Hubbard, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2014