How to Use swarm in a Sentence

swarm

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• When a cement truck blocked the lane, the swarm simply took to the sidewalk.
  — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• What’s most concerning isn’t the swarm of satellites but the types.
  — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• There were celebrities, tattoos and even a swarm of bees.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
• The swarm event will feature Group 1- and Group 2-size flyers.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• There is a difference between a swarm of cells and a swarm of birds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• Instead of a swarm of angry bees, Spot sounds like a bad day at the dentist.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
• Once Bae goes bye, a swarm of servers appears to clean up the dozens of pieces of salt that litter the countertop and the floor.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2021
• The clip blew up online with a swarm of memes and Kylie Jenner even poked fun at her sister.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
• The Houthis have fired drone swarms, cruise missiles, and anti-ship missiles.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• The year is 1957, and this the first time in the film that the swarm of Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos has been bottlenecked into a city.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Dunk the handle of a wooden spoon into hot oil and watch for a swarm of tiny bubbles to fizzle around it.
  — Charlotte Druckman / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin, Prop Styling By Valeria Suasnavas , WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• Flying buzziness class:Delta flight delayed by a swarm of bees.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Yemen’s Houthi rebels have used swarms of drones to target shipping in the Red Sea, launching at least 21 in one attack this month.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• The Little Couple's Bill Klein has been left with a broken elbow after a run-in with a swarm of wasps.
  — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• The benefit of a swarm is that some can break down, and the life-giving mining will continue.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
• The game was delayed for five minutes in the bottom of the first inning because of a swarm of honey bees in left-center field.
  — Todd Karpovich, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• It was preceded by an earthquake swarm at 9 p.m., the office said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• In the Russia-Ukraine war, drone conflict has often meant swarms of dozens of drones attacking at once.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• The movement was at high risk of fizzling out, but Green and his swarm of fans, called nerdfighters, have given it new life.
  — Lizzy Lawrence and Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
• Amy McKeever has news for you: There will be an even bigger swarm in the Midwest in 2021.
  — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• Gates was defeated, too, when Eugene unleashed his beloved swarm of bees on the fake teacher.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2022
• Clouds of insects no longer hover in such big swarms, and some key species, like the salmonfly, that are critical sources of food for fish are less abundant.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the summer of 2019, when joking about omens of the apocalypse still seemed fun, a swarm of grasshoppers descended on the Las Vegas Strip.
  — Joshua Sokol New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
• And once the sun goes down, the problem shifts to mosquito swarms and other annoying warm-weather pests.
  — Kelly Dawson, House Beautiful, 6 July 2023
• For Alana Miller, the organizer of the party, filling the space with a swarm of DeVito lookalikes was itself the point.
  — Megan Paetzhold, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2022
• If stocks are low, Moscow could send swarms of self-destructing drones.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• Yet even with a swarm of mosquitos chasing them, that, too, took longer than expected.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• If the bear stumbled into Bodega Bay while all the crows, sparrows, and gulls were losing their goddamn minds, she’d be overwhelmed by the swarm.
  — Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
• Or, even simpler: swarms of flying digital projectors could have broadcasted the footage on the sides of buildings and walls for all to see.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024

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swarm

2 of 2 verb

• By now, the puffins had vacated the area, and gulls swarmed the sea caves.
  — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• Mayflies – tasty morsels for bats – swarmed in the humid air.
  — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
• Paramedics swarmed the building — the help for which Díaz-Muñoz had begged, his wife said.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
• The bees emerged from the bag and swarmed on the man, authorities say.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2023
• But so many people had swarmed the market that the Wi-Fi crashed.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• Charging suit-and-tie men and pantsuit women swarmed the block.
  — Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
• The spotted lanternfly can swarm and take out big swaths of crops.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• The next Red Cross bus was soon swarmed, with people banging on its sides.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• Warplanes swarmed low in the sky, seeming to hover one above the other.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• As news crews swarmed the Foleys’ house and phone calls poured in, Foley grew angry.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
• Betty retreated to the back of the room as doctors and nurses swarmed in.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
• Even for a journalist, Phil has a head swarming with words.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2023
• Crowds of Stanley stans swarming Target this week to get their hands on one proves as much.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 5 Jan. 2024
• As Amos headed to the porch to get some bug spray, the cluster of bees grew bigger and began swarming him.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• The crowd was swarmed when the influencer finally arrived at the park.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2023
• Just stay after a match and watch kids swarm the players for autographs.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Video from the Tennis Channel showed bees swarming over a piece of equipment.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Early on the morning of October 7th, Hamas fighters swarmed the lush grounds of Kfar Aza.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• And by the late 2000s, smartphones and tablets had swarmed the market, slowing demand for desktops and laptops even more.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• The first half played out in five acts: — Duquesne’s swarming perimeter defense held the Cougars without a point for five minutes.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
• In response to her post, fans swarmed the comment section to also reminisce about the past.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• The mob of people swarmed the five agents handing them, pushing to try and make a line while almost trampling each other.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• Crowds swarmed downtown Moscow on a sunny day, and street cafes were packed with customers.
  — NBC News, 25 June 2023
• This summer, tourists have swarmed Europe in record numbers.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2023
• New York’s defense is swarming too, so this could be a low-scoring affair.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The cell phone video shows dozens of young Israeli men swarming by the half dozen gas pumps, shouting in anger, rampaging past the queuing cars.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
• But when the item went on sale, scalpers swarmed the museum, fighting over merchandise, as shown in some online videos.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• Soon after, their street was swarmed by armed officers and flashing lights.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Authorities swarmed the area shortly after noon in search of the shooter.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2023
• Commenters swarmed in with a combination of nickname suggestions and reassurance that the mom would feel like the name fit her little one in time.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024