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Example sentences for "bee"

Lexicographically close words:
bedspread; bedstead; bedsteads; bedstraw; bedtime; beech; beechen; beeches; beechnuts; beechwoods
  1. How Poesie shoulde not be employed vpon vaine conceits, nor specially those that bee vicious or infamous.

  2. It can not bee therefore that anie scorn or indignitie should iustly be offred to so noble, profitable, ancient and diuine a science as Poesie is.

  3. All which verses bee now become iambicque by breaking the first bissillables, and yet alters not their quantities though the feete be altered: and thus, Restlesse is the heart in his desires Rauing after that reason doth denie.

  4. Whereupon it came to passe, that all the commendable parts of speech were set foorth by the name of figures, and all the illaudable partes vnder the name of vices, or viciosities, of both which it shall bee spoken in their places.

  5. A bee flew out from Pauline's room, an enviable bee which had been booming with indefinite motion for how long round and round the white tulips on her sill.

  6. Presently another bee flew in; and Guy's fancy, catching hold of its wings hovered above Pauline where she lay sleeping.

  7. Then not one word Spoke Ruth; but when the sunset came, and she Went from the house again to walk alone, The dead bee glittered gem-like in her hair.

  8. I bring you, Ruth, a dead bee for a sign.

  9. As will be remembered by the early settlers of Michigan, bee hunting and wild honey constituted one of the comforts and luxuries of life.

  10. Then if the bees flew crooked and high and zigzag it was plain to the bee-hunters that they were in close proximity to the bee tree.

  11. One way the bee-hunter took of finding bee trees was to go into the woods, cut a sappling off, about four feet from the ground, square the top of the stump and on this put a dish of honey in the comb.

  12. I knew a man who happened to find a bee tree, and said that he marked it close down to the ground and covered the mark with leaves so that no one could find it.

  13. In the fall of the year, when there came a warm, clear and sunny day, after the frost had killed the leaves and flowers, and the trees were bare, was the best time to find bee trees.

  14. The little industrious bee came there with its comrades and extracted its load of sweet, then flew back to its native home in the forest.

  15. If we were near a bee tree in a short time a lone bee would come.

  16. Once a bee flew buzzing right over their heads, and made them clutch one another in terror.

  17. He worked like a bee all day, and loved to watch the Christmas gifts grow and blossom.

  18. General Bee called on his broken and retreating men of the far South to "rally on the Virginians.

  19. Look," exclaimed Bee to the South Carolinians and Alabamians, "see Jackson and his men standing like a stone wall!

  20. Generals Bee and Bartow first came to his relief, and in a short time the battle was raging fiercely.

  21. The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line.

  22. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom.

  23. Why, you are going to a working bee just the same as the big girls, aren't you?

  24. And moreover, if Silver bee rubbed over with the powder of the Cockatrices flesh, it is likewise sayde that it giveth it a tincture like unto Golde: and, besides these qualities, I remember not any other in the flesh or skinne of this serpent.

  25. And it is said, that if a man take the liquor which commeth from a piece of a Crocodyle fryed, and annoynte therewithall his wound or harmed part, that then he shall bee presently rid of all paine and torment.

  26. When wolves set upon wilde Bores, although they bee at variance amonge themselves, yet they give over their mutual combats, and joyne together against the Wolfe their common adversarie.

  27. See The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck; and for numerous similar cases among other animals, P.

  28. Meanwhile another bee began to make a similar hollow on the other side of the wall, but corresponding only with the rim of the excavation on this side.

  29. The bee drew these off with her hind-feet, masticated them, and made them into a band.

  30. When, in accordance with its instinct, the caterpillar becomes a chrysalis, or the bird builds its nest, or the bee its cell, these creatures act consciously and not as blind machines.

  31. Thus, for example, the larva of the bee itself spins the silky chamber in which it is to become a chrysalis, but other bees must close it with its lid of wax.

  32. Presently another bee began a second hollow upon the same side, each bee being continually relieved by others.

  33. The bee himself, like the nightingale and the dove, and other beautiful creatures, is an inhabitant of AEtna.

  34. The bee is there, with her odorous ministry.

  35. Yet none of these, My hive-born playfellows and fellow Bees, Could I affect, until this strange Bee came.

  36. The bee Who, at her flowery work doth sing, sings like the cicada of Anacreon, with her wings.

  37. The weather is cold and rainy; not a Bee shows herself on the few spring flowers that have come out.

  38. But this Bee is not very common in the neighbourhood of Avignon; and my engagements at the college[1] do not allow me to absent myself for the purpose of repairing to Carpentras, where she is so abundant.

  39. But a few attempts will soon convince us that the only second which would allow the Sitaris to establish itself in the home of the Bee is the very second when the egg is laid on the surface of the honey.

  40. The first Bee to appear, an Osmia, is dropped alive into a glass jar containing a few of these larvæ; and after a lapse of some fifteen minutes I inspect them through the pocket-lens.

  41. When I extract it from the old Chalicodoma-nests, I have to attribute it not to this Bee but to one of the Osmiæ (O.

  42. It remains for us to learn how the Meloe leaves the down of the Bee which has carried it, in order to enter the cell.

  43. Too bad that such a pretty creature should have a bee in her bonnet!


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bee; caprice; conceit; crank; crotchet; drone; fancy; freak; humor; insect; maggot; notion; vagary; whim; worker


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beef extract; beef steak; been away; been brought; been committed; been decreed; been described; been for; been guilty; been laid; been lost; been making; been married; been obliged; been observed; been pleased; been possible; been revealed; been seen; been sitting; been taken; been the; been thinking; been tryin; been used; beet sugar