How to Use pollinator in a Sentence

pollinator

noun

• Over the past five years, much of what used to be short grass now bursts with food for birds and pollinators.
  — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• In such a case, there's very little space for Species A's pollen on the pollinator's body.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
• The cityscape has become a hospitable home to the pollinators.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 July 2023
• One of the most common causes of plum tree problems is the lack of a pollinator.
  — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2021
• Only the female plants produce cones for use as hops (the male plants are the pollinators).
  — Barb Sands, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• There are also a lot of non-native pollinator plants that are great to use.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2023
• The flowers open from the bottom up, and are covered with pollinators.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
• Families will take home a pollinator-friendly native plant at the end of the course.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• This also plays into the hope that schools in the future will take field trips to visit the pollinator garden.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
• The first one counted the overall number of any kind of pollinator that flew into the rings and landed on at least one flower.
  — Jennifer Clare Ball, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
• There are about 750 species of figs, each of which has a particular fig wasp as its pollinator.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
• The purple pollinator pictured on the right is under $5!
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• Just letting your grass grow, without the right weeds and flowers, does not provide any kind of food for pollinators.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
• Fix that problem with convenient pollinator push-ups that'll have them all swarming the area in no time.
  — Brittney Morgan and Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2022
• For a long time, the honeybee was characterized as a canary in the coal mine, an omen of catastrophe for the rest of the world’s pollinators.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Birds and other pollinators flock to salvia, buckwheat and yarrow.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• The wolves, feeding on the flowers’ sweet nectar, might act as pollinators because of the remnants of pollen on their muzzles.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• Among the choices are a pollinator kit (16 plants with four plugs of each species), partial shade kit, clay/deer resilient kit and a rain garden/too wet to mow kit.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 Feb. 2022
• Its chief pollinator is the eastern tiger swallowtail, one of the largest butterflies of the Northeast.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
• The demonstration includes a tour of the farmstead and its pollinator garden.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
• Even mildly dirty air could kill 80% of giant Asian honey bees, a key pollinator in South Asia.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2020
• As always, the event will include talks on the best ways to grow vegetables, plant flowers to attract pollinators and take care of fruit trees.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
• Learn to attract and provide habitat for a range of pollinators.
  — oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2020
• Each purchase comes with a pollinator, a vibrating wand, a spoon to collect pollen, and a base for storage.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2021
• Worldwide, three out of four crops across the globe that provide food for humans depend on pollinators.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
• Bees evolved some 125 million years ago, and the plants produced nectar to secure them as pollinators.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 23 Oct. 2019
• The goal was to see whether bees could join a mission to the moon or Mars, where these prolific pollinators could help sustain gardens attached to a base.
  — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
• This is the perfect time to stop by your favorite garden center and pick up some pollinators to make their stops all the more productive.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2024
• This particular species of bat is a major pollinator of blue agave, the plant from which tequila is made.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
• Recently a woman from the other side of town offered me milkweed seeds to plant in my yard for pollinators.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025