Wasp is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like white or caucasian. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wasp meaning
- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
- Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
Synonyms of Wasp
Using Wasp
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. | Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila). | Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
- Useful related words include: white anglo-saxon protestant, white, white person, caucasian.
- In the example corpus, wasp often appears in combinations such as: the wasp, wasp quantumania, wasp and.
Context around Wasp
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wasp
- In this selection, "wasp" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sea, superhero, actual, quantumania, chironex and got stand out and add context to how "wasp" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include dangerous sea wasp chironex fleckeri and an actual wasp recently. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wasp" sits close to words such as behaviours, coke and echoing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wasp
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
So, she didn’t become the Wasp until her appearance in Ant-Man and the Wasp. (16 words)
Also wasted is Evangeline Lilly, whose Wasp has been downgraded from lead character to plot device. (16 words)
And, earlier in the year, “Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was savaged by the critics. (16 words)
Second, the wasp's parasitization behaviour bears some loose resemblance to the kaiju character, in the sense that the wasp suddenly emerges from the water to parasitize the host, similar to how Godzilla suddenly emerges from the water in the movies. (41 words)
Nonetheless, the wasp pollinates the flower with pollen from the caprifig it grew up in. When the wasp dies, it is broken down by enzymes ( Ficain ) inside the fig. Fig wasps are not known to transmit any diseases harmful to humans. (41 words)
The Ant-man/Wasp blended family unit finds itself sucked into the Quantum realm, something that Wasp matriarch Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) has been notably tight-lipped about since her return in the previous Ant-Man movie. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Evangeline Lilly, who played the role of superhero Wasp in Disney-Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, got stung by an actual wasp recently.
Making its triumphant debut in Ant-Man And The Wasp, “It Ain’t Over Till The Wasp Lady Stings” is both beautiful and action-oriented.
The Ant-man/Wasp blended family unit finds itself sucked into the Quantum realm, something that Wasp matriarch Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) has been notably tight-lipped about since her return in the previous Ant-Man movie.
Second, the wasp's parasitization behaviour bears some loose resemblance to the kaiju character, in the sense that the wasp suddenly emerges from the water to parasitize the host, similar to how Godzilla suddenly emerges from the water in the movies.
So, she didn’t become the Wasp until her appearance in Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Interaction with humans The dangerous "sea wasp" Chironex fleckeri The dangerous "sea wasp" Chironex fleckeri Jellyfish stings killed about 1,500 people in the 20th century, citation and cubozoans are particularly dangerous.
Lisbeth adopted her kickboxing ringname, "The Wasp", as her hacker handle and has a wasp tattoo on her neck.
Nonetheless, the wasp pollinates the flower with pollen from the caprifig it grew up in. When the wasp dies, it is broken down by enzymes ( Ficain ) inside the fig. Fig wasps are not known to transmit any diseases harmful to humans.
The islands sand dunes and shoreline are home to a number of bee and wasp species including the large Eumenid caterpillar hunting wasp, Delta dimidiatipenne and the striking blue banded bee, ( Amegilla canifrons ).
The Wasp in a wig Lewis Carroll decided to suppress a scene involving what was described as "a wasp in a wig" (possibly a play on the commonplace expression "bee in the bonnet").
According to one of the Marvel Studios producers, Ant-Man 4 talks are already happening with Kevin Feige ahead of Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania.
After all, the MCU is about to debut its own version of the villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, albeit a twisted version of Darren Cross from the first (formerly known as Yellowjacket).
A lot has been said about the forever youthfulness of Hollywood actor Paul Rudd but, the actor too had his share of difficulties during the shoot of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’.
Also wasted is Evangeline Lilly, whose Wasp has been downgraded from lead character to plot device.
Although it looks as though Kang the Conqueror has blue skin in the new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, he is, in fact, human.
And, earlier in the year, “Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was savaged by the critics.
A new Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer hints that Kang has killed Avengers before, making the villain appear all the more dangerous.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania curiously seemed to kill off its main villain, Kang the Conqueror.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania debuts exclusively in theaters on February 17. Check out the latest trailer below.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania got juice from the Presidents Day Monday with $14.2M, discount Tuesday wasn’t so robust, with only $7M this past week.
Common combinations with wasp
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the wasp 138×
- wasp quantumania 51×
- wasp and 8×
- wasp is 8×
- wasp in 5×
- wasp quantumania's 5×
- wasp will 4×
- wasp has 3×
- to wasp 3×
- wasp that 3×