Bees is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bees in a sentence
Related words
Bees meaning
plural of bee
Using Bees
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bee
- In the example corpus, bees often appears in combinations such as: the bees, bees and, of bees.
Context around Bees
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bees
- In this selection, "bees" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, honey, wild, bumble, interact, compensate and near stand out and add context to how "bees" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include absence of bees and bees and and domestic bees from other. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bees" sits close to words such as bancorp, battalion and edo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bees
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A lot of people don’t recognize bees as bees,” said Turley. (12 words)
These bees were not ordinary bees, they were true wild and deadly African bees. (14 words)
Every beekeeper feels for their bees," said Stapley, who kept bees near the rural Ottawa community of North Gower. (19 words)
Swarming is the natural way for colonies to multiply, and is triggered when hives get too full of bees and honey; the old queen is ushered out of the hive along with a third to a half of the bees, and their search for a new home begins. (48 words)
Fire services were called to fix the problem and airport official Kaushik Bhattcharya said they had to "spray water to dislodge the honey bees" and that "after nearly an hour-long operation," the bees could be driven away. (38 words)
It’s also been noticed that bees often return to their hives as the eclipse unfolds and when it gets light out in a seemingly too short of period, scout bees leave the hive to investigate. (36 words)
Even if there’s not that much difference between shooting bees and skunks versus shooting bullets and smoke bombs, wouldn’t you rather shoot bees? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
These bees were not ordinary bees, they were true wild and deadly African bees.
Often, honey bees interact with both wild bees and domestic bees from other colonies while out foraging up to three miles from their hive.
Persons seeking to bring in Africanised bees from Trinidad are asked to stop immediately as these bees would destroy our native bees, and very harmful to the Grenadian population.
According to the researchers, this is mainly due to honey bees, which together with bumble bees, compensate for the reduction in urban pollinator diversity.
Every beekeeper feels for their bees," said Stapley, who kept bees near the rural Ottawa community of North Gower.
They also found changes in the microbiomes of wild bees living in densely urban areas and fragmented habitats, which makes it more difficult for the bees to access food sources, ideal nesting areas and mates.
Your correspondents write of an absence of bees, and bees that can’t fly (27/10 and 28/10).
Active from early spring through late fall, bumble bees need access to a variety of nectar- and pollen-producing flowers as food for the adult bees and their larvae.
A lot of people don’t recognize bees as bees,” said Turley.
If you have them in your garden, you might be a bit worried with loads of bees buzzing around, but unlike normal bees they don’t sting.
It’s also been noticed that bees often return to their hives as the eclipse unfolds and when it gets light out in a seemingly too short of period, scout bees leave the hive to investigate.
Jodie Smith of Busy Bees said: "Busy Bees has been operating, in one way or another, for over 40 years.
Swarming is the natural way for colonies to multiply, and is triggered when hives get too full of bees and honey; the old queen is ushered out of the hive along with a third to a half of the bees, and their search for a new home begins.
Tawny mining bees and buffish mining bees are my main focus, and on spring and summer days insect enthusiasts won’t be disappointed.
These trained bees were then paired with bees who had never seen the puzzle, and the reward for the first step was removed.
While raising bees, technically, is agriculture, it is a business like no other, involving caring for thousands of bees harvesting and selling pure honey.
Even if there’s not that much difference between shooting bees and skunks versus shooting bullets and smoke bombs, wouldn’t you rather shoot bees?
Angry Inwood residents blame beekeeping "hipsters" for an aggressive swarm of meat bees reportedly prowling Isham Park — meat bees some locals believe have been lured there by honey bee hives.
Bloch and colleagues had earlier shown that bees adjust their activities depending on their role in the colony, with foragers showing a strong circadian rhythm and "nurse" bees tending the brood around the clock.
Fire services were called to fix the problem and airport official Kaushik Bhattcharya said they had to "spray water to dislodge the honey bees" and that "after nearly an hour-long operation," the bees could be driven away.
Common combinations with bees
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bees 59×
- bees and 33×
- of bees 27×
- honey bees 12×
- bees to 11×
- wild bees 7×
- bees are 7×
- bees in 7×
- for bees 7×
- bees from 5×