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How to use bee in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Bee means a flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey. Example: “Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.”

Examples of bee by meaning

nounA flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies...

  • He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
  • Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.2012 March 31, “Subtle poison”, in The Economist

nounA contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.

  • They're setting up in the gym for the Vision Bee.2014 July 24, Spencer Rothbell, “Puddle Eyes” (7:02 from the start), in Clarence, season 1, episode 14, spoken by Sumo (Tom Kenny), Cartoon...

nounA community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.

  • There was but little variation in types of buildings in the pioneer period: house, church, store, barn and mill were usually much alike except in size, and a raising bee was the ordinary means of their erection.1973, Alan Skeoch, Tony H. Smith, Canadians and their society, page 139
  • Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement

nounThe name of the Latin script letter B/b.

  • "The ee-vee-ee-ar-en-oh-ee-ell-blank-bee-ell-oh-ess-ess-oh-em-blank-en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar is especially dee-ee-ell-eye-cee-eye-oh-you-ess." Our friends thanked the spelling bee for his help and then he buzzed off.2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170

More sentences with bee

  • Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.From the entry work
  • Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.From the entry work out
  • Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.From the entry symbiosis
  • The bees murmured in the forest. The waves murmured on the shore.From the entry murmur
  • She often rambles about bees' behavior, both in the hive and in the field.From the entry ramble
  • He has had a bee in his bonnet ever since he heard about the problem.From the entry bee in one's bonnet
  • The bee was flying around my head, but then it buzzed off.From the entry buzz off
  • The districtwide spelling bee had contestants from every middle school in the district.From the entry districtwide
  • "Chlorpyrifos is considered to be toxic to fish, crustaceans, and bees."From the entry chlorpyrifos
  • There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.From the entry into
  • In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.From the entry caste
  • Bees help pollinate flowers as they collect nectar.From the entry pollinate
  • Farmers often import bees to pollinate their crops.From the entry pollinate
  • We learned about birds and bees back in school.From the entry birds and bees
  • I had the birds and bees with your mother.From the entry birds and bees
  • The bee is a proverbially busy creature.From the entry proverbially
  • We wish to study the algogenic effect of bee stings.From the entry algogenic
  • Orchid bees are the only group of corbiculate bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusocial behavior.From the entry orchid bee
  • She died from a bee sting.From the entry sting
  • These bees are resistant to varroa.From the entry varroa
  • As a beekeeper (either vocationally or avocationally), there is certain equipment that you will want, such as a bee suit and some hives.From the entry vocationally
  • Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.From the entry arrhenotokous
  • Trophallaxis is at its most highly developed in social insects such as ants, wasps, bees and termites, but is also used by some birds, and by wolves and vampire bats.From the entry trophallaxis
  • “Just before we stopped here, we passed by some bee balm,” I said.2024, Percival Everett, James, Picador (2025), page 216. From the entry bee balm
  • The Tiiv of Nigeria kept bees in special horns containing powdered poisons.2023, Paul Chrystal, Bioterrorism & Biological Warfare: Disease as a Weapon of War. From the entry Tiiv
  • Obviously if you see a grasser eat something–a bee, wasp, or mayfly–go that way fast!2021, Drew Ross, “Pro Tips: How to Catch Grass Carp on the Fly”, in Orvis.com, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2021. From the entry grasser
  • Astonishingly, bee mothers can decide whether the egg they lay will develop into a male or female.2019, Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum, The Good Bee. From the entry bee mother
  • Cuphead is a difficult gauntlet through a ton of bosses, from evil clowns to bossy queen bees.2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18…. From the entry bossy
  • Their murderous rampages on bee colonies have earned them the nickname ‘murder hornets’ from entomologists.2017 January 1, “The Asian Giant Hornet, The Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Is The Stuff Of Nightmares”, in All That's Interesting. From the entry murder hornet
  • Sweat bee life begins as an egg laid on or near its doughy pollen mass.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry doughy
  • If enough bees sting an animal, the cardiotoxin component of melittin will work to arrest its heart.2016 August 18, Avi Steinberg, “The Connoisseur of Pain”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry melittin
  • Individual bees have been observed washboarding on the inside glass of an observation hive.2015, James E. Tew, The Beekeeper's Problem Solver, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry washboard
  • Every tree hummed, and furry bees buzzled and flew, in and out, from flower to flower.2015, Jamie Alan Belanger, D.L. Harvey, Shelli-Jo Pelletier, Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions. From the entry buzzle
  • My bees are the most properly beeish and bee-like bees in all of beeishness!2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity, page 41. From the entry beeishness

Meaning of bee

  1. noun A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
  2. noun Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.
  3. noun A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.

Full definition of bee

Questions about bee in a sentence

How do you use bee in a sentence?
Bee is used as a noun. For example: “Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.”
What is a short sentence with bee?
“Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.”
What does bee mean?
Bee means a flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bee (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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