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More sentences with hornet

• The old man is on the bridge, mad as a hornet.From the entry mad as a hornet
• We poked a stick into the hornets' nest and ran like mad.From the entry like mad
• Look at this nasty hornet sting: it's turned blue!From the entry sting
• Right about now the hornets and yellow jackets are approaching their prime.2020 July 30, Pat Neal, “Wildlife: A Buggy Time of Year”, in Forks Forum. From the entry waffle-stomp
• Barron immediately retreated, and later sprayed hornet killer on the nest with his son.2019 June 30, Mariel Padilla, “Officials Warn of Wasp ‘Super Nests’ in Alabama”, in The New York Times. From the entry yellow jacket
• There are eight UK species of yellow-jackets, alongside their bigger cousin, the European hornet.2017 August 25, Mark Shardlow, The Guardian. From the entry European hornet
• 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
• Those articles in the tabloids stirred up a real hornets' nest.2007, Tom Peavler, The Adjustment. From the entry hornets' nest
• Certain subspecies, such as Japanese honey bees, guard against hornets by "thermoballing."2007 September 17, “Honey Bee Defense Leaves Hornets Breathless”, in Science, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2024. From the entry thermoballing
• They have sharp eyes for pitfalls, snakes, hornets, and stinging plants.1943 April 4, Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area, Getting About in New Guinea, page 6. From the entry liana
• By this time I figgered he’d wore the hornets out, so I came alive again.1935 October, Robert E. Howard, “The Riot at Cougar Paw”, in Action Stories. From the entry bodacious
• Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry blowfly
• But murder hornets don't care about any of that.2021 March 17, Maria Morava, Scottie Andrew, “Murder hornet season is around the corner”, in CNN.com. From the entry murder hornet
• Hornet attacks have been reported elsewhere in China as well.2013 October 3, “Giant Hornets Kill Dozens in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2013, Asia…. From the entry Guangxi
• One munches an apple, one buzzes his lips like a hornet, the third twiddles the radical of his stegocephalic posthon.1980 Winter, Guy Davenport, “The Death of Picasso: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Germinal, Floréal, Prairial 1973”, in The Kenyon Review…. From the entry stegocephalic
• "You'd better have shoved your grey snout in a hornets' nest, Badger, than suggest that I am the blab," said Nikabrik.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. From the entry blab
• But today the headache was unbearable, and the Cardinal's temper was that of a bear pursued by remorseless hornets.1950, Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal. From the entry toughhearted
• Well, he knows by this time, I reckon, that the fastest man afoot can’t noways match speed with a hornet.1935 October, Robert E. Howard, “The Riot at Cougar Paw”, in Action Stories. From the entry bodacious
• Some honeybees have adapted to defend themselves from Asian giant hornets via thermoballing, which is when they surround the hornet and vibrate their muscles.2024 June 4 (last accessed), Helen Roy, “Asian hornet guide: how to identify, the difference from a native European hornet, and how to…. From the entry thermoballing
• As the summer progresses, we are faced with another insect pest worse than all the others combined, the bald-faced hornets and yellow-jackets.2020 July 30, Pat Neal, “Wildlife: A Buggy Time of Year”, in Forks Forum. From the entry waffle-stomp
• Eight hikers, including foreign nationals, were stung by a hornet swarm in New Taipei's Shimen District while they were walking along the Qingshan Waterfall hiking path.2023 October 1, Wang Chao-yu, Li Hsien-feng, Wang Hong-kuo, James Lo, “More hornet attacks reported in New Taipei on Sunday”, in Focus…. From the entry Shimen
• Bright-beady of eye, bony of cheek and jaw, scarred, toughened, broken and reknit, indestructible, grisly, gladiatorial as a hornet, he was a type neither new nor unfamiliar.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry reknit

Meaning of hornet

1. noun Any large wasp of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
2. noun A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.

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How do you use hornet in a sentence?

Hornet is used as a noun. For example: “The old man is on the bridge, mad as a hornet.”

What is a short sentence with hornet?

“But murder hornets don't care about any of that.”

What does hornet mean?

Hornet means any large wasp of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.