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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
stridulate .
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Examples
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Studying the information, Pilwondepat stridulated involuntarily.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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A mixed audience of complimentary thranx and perspiring humans stridulated and cheered in unison.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Studying the information, Pilwondepat stridulated involuntarily.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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A mixed audience of complimentary thranx and perspiring humans stridulated and cheered in unison.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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The robots squeaked and the multipeds stridulated.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss
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Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped technically, "stridulated" for the same reasons.
Forbes.com: News Carol Pinchefsky 2012
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