But how do you make an insectile creature sympathetic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [District 9: A Movie Review « Colleen Anderson] Reference

The stiffly extended insectile arm: That was his target.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Out of Time]

His head was inches from the insectile face of the creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drawing of the Three]

A man with large insectile glasses lectured with fierce intensity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucifer's Hammer]

His feathery-gray, insectile antenna trembled in the still air, sniffing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

For in spite of their grotesque insectile bodies, their wholly alien minds, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

Above the insectile anthem of the night, rose a gurgling voice in a drinking song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Although her turn as the evil, insectile model/designer in Zoolander was sheer bliss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff We Did This Weekend] Reference

This was a kind of low buzzing, a maddening, slobbering whine, insectile and insistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

The constance of their hum is insectile, and reminds me of the sand crickets back home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-10] Reference

Then, twisting his thorax with insectile precision, he grabbed a hold of the next blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [miss-k2 Diary Entry] Reference

Above the flattened nose was an insectile node of eyes, looking at them expressionlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gunslinger]

The longer I studied that segmented insectile body, the less I wanted to discuss the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]

I say get two buckets, both filled with three pounds of churning, squirming insectile terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reality TV Show Trend I'd Like To See] Reference

The little tug was snug against the gray thorax of a sleek, insectile ship five times her length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer]

It seemed to have grown bigger, and a low noise was coming from it, a sort of angry insectile chittering.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Glass] Reference

His girlfriend is Lin, an artist and a Kepri a humanoid with a insectile head who "speaks" in sign language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

He saw two shaking heads: a thin face wearing insectile glasses, and a thick bushy beard above thick glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucifer's Hammer]

The fires flickered and danced to the insectile anthem as for twenty minutes or more he lay there as one dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Sheelagh's scream woke Caitlin, and she popped out of her room in time to see the insectile head emerge from Carl's room.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Other Worlds]

Though his sword cut through the insectile drones like a knife through butter, this new creature's arm rang like fine steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey]

As we neared the hub of the jail, the silence that had characterized the isolation unit was replaced by a low, insectile hum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

It had the head of a giant mosquito, Jace saw as it came closer, complete with insectile eyes and a dangling blood-red feeding tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Ashes] Reference

Despite its insectile appearance, it was warm-blooded -- under its chitin it had bones and muscle and organs not unlike Walker's own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Something stalked toward her, a huge something with gray-scaled skin, small insectile eyes, and ears that flared into venomous spikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

Episode LII: After the giant ants come the giant insectile predators.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The room was silent, except for the small insectile hum of the electric clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Computer] Reference

Codex Alera by introducing two new races: the wolf-like canim and the insectile Vord.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFFaudio] Reference

So I don't know why I didn't expect insectile cannibals, but I didn't, and they made me jump.    From Wordnik.com.  [OCTools] Reference

In fact, pretty much every possible (and impossible) insectile erogenous zone that could be experienced in videogame form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evil Avatar] Reference

Newsarama previewed a page of the forthcoming issue, showing the heroes fighting off a horde of insectile monsters from the Negative Zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

There was hunger in his insectile eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Games] Reference

Ultimately, could the CTs be insectile?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

The insectile head swung toward the strood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

19. insectile.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Maybe it’s insectile, I don’t know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

Of those, one, I believed, was insectile, at least two vaguely reptilian, one batrachian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]