How to use wasp in a sentence

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• Our shed has several insect infestations, including ants, yellowjackets, and wasps.From the entry insect
• Son of a gun! I just got stung by a wasp!From the entry son of a gun
• The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight.From the entry dogfight
• I was stung on the behind by a wasp.From the entry behind
• 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
• 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
• He said that just angered the yellow jackets, the highly aggressive wasps that live in such colonies.2019 June 30, Mariel Padilla, “Officials Warn of Wasp ‘Super Nests’ in Alabama”, in The New York Times. From the entry yellow jacket
• Rose slugs are the larvae of sawflies, non-stinging members of the wasp family.2015, Peter Kukielski, Roses Without Chemicals: 150 Disease-Free Varieties That Will Change the Way You Grow Roses. From the entry rose slug
• A wasp nest cozened up in the corner of the far ceiling.2013, Rick Cox, Orphan Moon, page 180. From the entry cozen
• And it was so a wasp, and I saved her from it.2011, Lauren Myracle, Ten. From the entry stupid-head
• Instead, the wasp turns the prey into a live food source for its growing young.2011, Jay Dale, Deadly and Incredible Animals: Top Ten Minibeasts, page 11. From the entry emerald cockroach wasp
• It makes me think of wasps, chewing up wood and making their paper honeycomb nests.2011 January 25, Dave, “3d printing paper molds”, in Hive76 Discussion (Google Groups), archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025. From the entry 'pedia
• Bees are similar to one group of wasps, the sphecoid wasps, but are quite unlike other Aculeata.2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World, volume 1, page 2. From the entry sphecoid
• Wasps are only cheeky if you hold them in your hand.1994, Victoria Katherine Burbank, Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry cheeky
• Out came old Teenie, buzzing mad as a whole nest of wasps.1942, Emily Carr, “Characters”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry awfulness
• The queens of ants, bees, wasps, and termites wear the crown of maternity — no other.1904, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 108, page 559. From the entry apian
• In this volume the author presents an account of the ants and cuckoo wasps.1904, Experiment Station Record, volume 15, page 280. From the entry cuckoo wasp
• The wasps exploded off the nest at me.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry effrontery
• And you might not have been able to tell, but the sphecid wasps have a very narrow, threadlike waist.2016 September 8, Joan Morris, “What’s been stealing my stuffing?”, in The Mercury News. From the entry sphecid
• In this respect, therapy using bee and wasp venoms is considered a psychoneurological approach for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases.2015 August 18, Juliana Silva et al., “Pharmacological Alternatives for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Wasp and Bee Venoms…. From the entry psychoneurological
• What makes you any different from the digger wasp?2013, Stephen D. Hales, “Freedom”, in This is Philosophy: An Introduction, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, paragraph…. From the entry sphexish
• The debate over greater European integration took an unexpected twist yesterday with the arrival of Euro wasp in Britain.2001 May 26, Stewart Payne, “Alarm over invasion of the Euro wasps”, in Telegraph (online). From the entry Euro wasp
• He saw character in wasps, volition in tipitiwitchets, excitement in pine trees, order in bird migrations and glory in the heavens.1978, David Scofield Wilson, In the Presence of Nature, page 100. From the entry tipitiwitchet
• The body it wears is insectiform, a fly—no, a wasp, crawling out of a fossilized nest somewhere near the bottom of the crust.2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 305. From the entry insectiform
• That's the multi-function "hypodermic needle" at the end of the abdomen, and, in this instance, it doubles the length of the wasp to about 8cm.2019 September 15, Jonathan Amos, “Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them”, in BBC News. From the entry ovipositor
• All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry parasitoid
• Wasps forage both visually and olfactorily.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry olfactorily
• One column had been particularly good, something about wasps in the fall, crawling into houses or garages to prolong their lives a little.2016 July 18, Joy Williams, “Stuff”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry warm over
• The rose slug or sawfly is neither a slug nor a fly; actually, it is an insect related to bees and wasps.2013, Loren Nancarrow, Dead Snails Leave No Trails: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden. From the entry rose slug
• Wasps and bees aren’t the brainiest critters on the face of the earth, but they sure know where their dinner comes from: brightly colored flowers!2002, Jerry Baker, Backyard Problem Solver: 2,168 Natural Solutions for Growing Great Grass, Super Shrubs, Bright Bulbs, Perfect…. From the entry gardenwear
• Galls on tamboti branches are caused by the larvae of a wasp of the tanaostigmatid family, which bores into the wood to lay her eggs.1993, Braam Van Wyk, Bushveld Trees: Lifeblood of the Transvaal Lowveld, page 70. From the entry tanaostigmatid
• Some small dermestids are found in bee or wasp nests, where they feed on old pollen stores or on dried remains of bees or wasps.1983, Richard E. White, Beetles, Peterson Field Guides, page 194. From the entry dermestid
• The literature pertaining to sphecoid wasps in Quebec may be divided into four broad categories: species surveys, biological studies, taxonomic studies and reference works.1982, Albert T. Finnamore, The Sphecoidea of Southern Quebec (Hymenoptera), page 3. From the entry sphecoid
• Comedian of love, my wind willed boy has entered the bees' abode, the danger yard of roses his second spring to toedance with the wasps.1956, Harold Witt, “Boy”, in Saturday review, volume 39, page 23. From the entry toedance
• These works thus corroborate the necessity for more complete studies on the micromolecular fractions of wasp venoms to identify and characterize the components responsible for these notorious antiepileptic effects.2015 August 8, Victoria Monge-Fuentes et al., “Neuroactive compounds obtained from arthropod venoms as new therapeutic platforms for the…. From the entry micromolecular
• A considerable number of species of birds build their nests in close proximity to, or even inside of, nests of aggressive, stinging insects—bees, wasps, and ants.2013, S. Mark Henry, Symbiosis: Associations of Invertebrates, Birds, Ruminants, and Other Biota, page 304. From the entry cordon bleu
• Paranoid I was being ripped off, I 'tested' the potency of the skunk on a wasp by trapping it under a glass, and giving it a blowback.2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Random House, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry blowback
• Scottish curler Eve Muirhead was left facing a race against time to make the first European Tour event of the season after being stung by a wasp.2011 September 23, “Eve Muirhead fit for Oslo Cup after wasp sting scare”, in BBC News. From the entry race against time
• Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies.2009, Gilbert Waldbauer, What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life, page 140. From the entry bananaquit

Meaning of wasp

1. noun Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
2. noun Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
3. noun Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

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How do you use wasp in a sentence?

Wasp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Our shed has several insect infestations, including ants, yellowjackets, and wasps.”

What is a short sentence with wasp?

“Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.”

What does wasp mean?

Wasp means any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.