Chloe, when she had milked her ewes, and sometimes Daphnis' goats as well, had great difficulty in making the milk curdle, for the gnats were very troublesome and if she flapped them away they stung her.

The bee makes honey, which the drone devours. The wasp and the hornet molest with a sting: and especially cattle, so do the gadfly (breeze), the fly and the gnat.

The gnats swarmed us.

The cow missed being hit by a gnat's whisker.

Gnatho was a glutton whose whole science consisted in eating to excess, drinking till he was inebriated, and satisfying his evil vices after he had indulged in the cup.

You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

The biker was bombarded by clouds of gnats along every mile of the bike trail.

The river has dried up now, and the little water that remains is plagued by swarms of gnats.