Example Sentences

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It does so using an unsuspecting accomplice: the bumble-bee.

From Economist • Aug. 10, 2016

Wolfe pulls out her cell phone, which is hot pink with a bright yellow bumble-bee decal on the back, and shows me a guy she matched with in Costa Rica, of all places.

From Time • May 15, 2015

You’d think from that first growling note, He’d a bumble-bee inside his throat; ’Tis not a bee, but only a bark; For answer, shrill and eager, hark!

From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Dale, Daphne

One of our young poets has a verse in which he sings of The solemn priestly bumble-bee That marries rose to rose.

From Under the Maples by Burroughs, John

So the voice of the sewing-machine began to hum through the old house like a cheerful bumble-bee, and Mag entered upon what was certainly the happiest period of her career.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein