How to Use honeybee in a Sentence

honeybee

noun

• Their stingers are longer than a run-of-the-mill honeybee’s.
  — al, 4 May 2020
• Kids have so much fun pointing to the honeybees and to all of the broccoli.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
• The next step was to build the ram itself—with the help of none other than the humble honeybee.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
• Read more: A third of the nation's honeybee colonies died last year.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017
• The name is a nod to the street where the Larson family lives and tends to a honeybee hive in their yard.
  — Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• The couple plans to add honeybees, a vineyard and agritourism with the help of their son, Jess.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Mead, or honey wine, is good for more than the honeybees.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• And not just any kind of honeybees — these bees are Italian.
  — Deasia Paige, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2018
• In an instant, more honeybees would pile on and pin the hornet down.
  — National Geographic, 8 Feb. 2020
• There are three types of honeybees — queen, drone and worker.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• Their stingers are longer than that of a honeybee and their venom is more toxic.
  — David Williams, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020
• The hotel chain plays host to 40 honeybee apiaries and wild bee hotels around the world.
  — Bailey Bischoff, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2018
• The opossum gives birth to as many as 20 babies, initially about the size of a honeybee.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• How do honeybees decide which hole or hollow to start a new home in?
  — Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• But there's good news in the fight to slow their decline: the U.S. government has approved the use of the world's first vaccine for honeybees.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The queen is also typically the mother of all or mostly all of the honeybees in the hive.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2023
• Some nest in the ground, some in wood, some in brick siding, and some build traditional hives, like the honeybee.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
• The information on display was all a part of a tour in late June of the center’s 15 honeybee hives.
  — Denys Bucksten, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• There are signs the global honeybee die-off may be slowing.
  — Kastalia Medrano, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2017
• The goal was to develop a backup bee for the struggling honeybee.
  — Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
• The honeybees quickly adapted to the tracheal mites, but not to Varroa.
  — Paige Embry, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
• Drone bees are male honeybees that fertilize the queen bee.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• Honeybees tend to swarm around the month of May. Swarming is the reproduction of a honey bee colony.
  — Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2017
• In the wild, the sting of a honeybee, rather than that of the more fierce yellow jacket, is more likely to lead to anaphylaxis, Casale said.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• The on-site apiary, home to more than two million honeybees, is the largest in the city; honey is available for purchase in the farm store, as are fresh eggs.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
• The females are capable of stinging, but lack the instinct to guard their nests like a honeybee does.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2021
• There's not much a home gardener can do to stem the loss of commercial honeybee hives.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 June 2017
• The females are capable of stinging, but lack the instinct to guard their nest like a honeybee.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• Jasmine meets Kristen for wine and tells her that she’s not invited, and Kristen gets madder than a honeybee with a hard-on.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 May 2024
• Tarantula hawk stingers generally do not get stuck in the skin like honeybee stingers do.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024