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• We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.From the entry have
• The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.From the entry bare
• I decided to geno insects because of the risk of swarms in the early game.From the entry geno
• Here Harlotry unhives her swarms Of puffed and painted faces, Parading their half-faded charms With meretricious graces.2023, Nomentino, Nuova Italia, page 203. From the entry unhive
• A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270. From the entry neon tetra
• With sickening awareness, I watched hundreds of them swarm a guard, biting him repeatedly.2020 March 20, RaShelle Workman, Vampires & Dragons, Polished Pen Press Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry akuma
• A Lurcher swarmed at us, and Grigfen shot a wave of ghostlight to knock it over.2020 February 18, Sheena Boekweg, Glitch Kingdom, Feiwel & Friends, →ISBN. From the entry fast travel
• Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm of angry Fletchers.2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 41:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the…. From the entry angry
• A swarming ghoulishness that couples with the horror of palms pressed to steaming glass.2019, Julia Armfield, “Stop your women’s ears with wax”, in Salt Slow, Picador, page 86. From the entry ghoulishness
• It transforms your subject from a single mass into an ungraspable swarm.2018 September 10, Gretchen McCulloch, “Welcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO Dis”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2018. From the entry ungraspable
• Studies on swarm robotics systems have shown the potential of large-scale multirobot systems based on decentralized control.2015, Miguel Duarte, Vasco Costa, Jorge Gomes, Tiago Rodrigues, Fernando Silva, Sancho Moura Oliveira, Anders Lyhne Christensen…. From the entry multirobot
• After 79 days, Occupy Central — the protests for democracy that swarmed Hong Kong — is gone.2014 December 16, Nick Kirkpatrick, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Hong Kong’s Occupy Central protest is no more”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN…. From the entry Tiananmen Square
• I will use it against the ants, while they swarm over everything.2013, D.H. Lawrence, Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated). From the entry antish
• Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite.2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49. From the entry cleg
• The navy regularly swarmed the streets of Plymouth on a Saturday night.2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180. From the entry fishhead
• Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.2005, Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art, page 213. From the entry mayfly
• We can't have lots of people swarming all over the place.2004, Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation, Penguin, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry all over the place
• And as I said, sir, the whole garden was swarming wi' Pandies, so have a care.2003, V. A. Stuart, The Heroic Garrison, →ISBN. From the entry pandy
• They were rising from the ground; a swarm of angry bees encircling him in a cloud.2001, Carl Bilicska, Vengeance, page 35. From the entry beebee
• There were television pictures of the bees swarming, hovering and reswarming above her front door.1999, Nahmad, Claire, The cat herbal : simple green remedies for your cat, Souvenir Press, page 10. From the entry reswarm
• The "real" world unfolds in the swarming dots of a twenty-five inch screen in trinitronic telereality.1987, Telos, Volume 20, Number 73, Washington University, page 61. From the entry telereality
• The devilish host chorused a paean of victory as they swarmed back.1982–1984, Wu Cheng’en, “When the Heart Spirit Stays in the Home the Demons Submit; the Mother of Wood Helps Bring Monsters to the Truth”…. From the entry chorus
• On the waterfront, just outside the foreign settlements, the streets swarmed with filth-ridden beggars and coolies.[1982 [1975], Otto Braun, “Shanghai, 1932–1933”, in Jeanne Moore, transl., Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 [A Comintern…. From the entry Zhabei
• Since that is the custom, they swarm over a manhaul vehicle the same way.1960 July, Robert L. Jenkins, “Habits, Customs, Beliefs of Native Labor on Overseas Construction Concern Army, Air Force, Navy Engineers”…. From the entry manhaul
• There, men with spiked poles would swarm into the scow, hook each fish under the gills.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry slithery
• Everything swarmed with divine presences, big or small; above all, everything might be significant of divine expression.1928, Hubbard Hutchinson, From Rome to Florence, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 21. From the entry supergod
• They thought about pulling ashore to camp, however bloats of hippos, teams of crocks, and swarms of mozzies changed their minds.2026, Santiago Dizon, Joanne and the Headhunters. From the entry bloat
• The Jewish people disperse among the swarming of new nations.2025 February 2, Sam Kriss, “A universal, absolute, and infinite theory of vibes”, in Numb at the Lodge. From the entry Notzri
• An enormous swarm of terrifying flies flew out of a pagan temple destroyed during Otto’s missions, embodying the residing evil forces.2020, Stanisław Rosik, “The space of the turning point in the context of its neighbours: Pomeranian communities within the circle of the…. From the entry miraculum
• Planes pulled up in rows at the gates, assembly-line style, workers swarming over them like ants even before they stopped.2016 March, Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 313. From the entry runway
• There was a time every spring when bees swarmed all over the brambles and the apple and pear trees.2015, Jamie Alan Belanger, D.L. Harvey, Shelli-Jo Pelletier, Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions. From the entry buzzle
• We had not evacuated the Martiniére fifteen minutes today before it was swarming with Pandies like a nest of ants.2014, Major Octavius H. S. G. Anson, With H.M. 9th Lancers During The Indian Mutiny, →ISBN. From the entry pandy
• Neither Mama nor Papa would have, for even a second, considered sending an arachnophobiac down into a cellar swarming with spiders.2014 January 7, Tamar Myers, PennDutch Mystery Series Box Set 1-3, NYLA, →ISBN. From the entry arachnophobiac
• With flankers Mamuka Gorgodze and Shalva Sutiashvili to the fore, Georgia came swarming back, dominating England at the breakdown.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport. From the entry to the fore
• The town of Bath, where Starbucks-sipping tourists swarm over ancient Roman ruins, is an especially advantageous place to consider time’s layeredness.2009 July 20, Ben Brantley, “Time, and the Green and Pleasant Land”, in New York Times. From the entry layeredness

Meaning of swarm

1. noun A large number of insects or other bugs (e.g. centipedes), especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
2. noun A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
3. noun A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

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Questions about swarm in a sentence

How do you use swarm in a sentence?

Swarm is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.”

What is a short sentence with swarm?

“a swarm of meteorites”

What does swarm mean?

Swarm means a large number of insects or other bugs (e.g. centipedes), especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.