working bee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They also field-tested the extract in small, working bee colonies near WSU.
From Seattle Times
They swarmed, not to be industrious like the working bee, but to consume like the drone, and to do mischief like the wasp.
From Project Gutenberg
They seem to fancy that their home is in deadly danger of being consumed, and every working bee immediately burdens itself down with all the honey it can carry, and for the time being renders itself helpless to use its sting.
From Project Gutenberg
The castellan, however, is no admirer of nooks and snuggeries, loving most to get through his morning reading in an especially large apartment, garnished with movable bookshelves—a transparent hive for a working bee—amid abundant air and floods of sunshine.
From Project Gutenberg
There is nothing feminine about a working bee but its anatomy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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