Voorbeelden van bluebottle

• Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine. 

• The bluebottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots. 

• The office was very still, except for two bluebottle flies butting against the ceiling and buzzing up and down the window-panes. 

• There was one big bluebottle that had got stuck there on his back with his wings in the sticky stuff. 

• This fly is very like our British bluebottle, with a somewhat greener head, and a body entirely yellow. 

• Some seem simply to appear, rather like bluebottles in the spring, when the sun comes out.

• We call them bluebottles, because they have always sat on the top of the meat vans.

• I should think there is no place more likely than a lairage to produce large quantities of bluebottle flies.