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Sentence Examples There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden. However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. Digital noise reduction causes people's faces and clothes to crawl, as though they were covered by a swarm of small insects. Guitars weep and raspy throats belt out blues from their guts as people from all walks of life swarm the tiny dancefloor. But currently at Hanauma Bay, the silvery aholehole swarm in the shallows all day, darting around human legs to catch free food. The rats then swarm onto and devour any lamed, limping brontosaurus that they come across. A swarm of dark elves jumped down from the trees and fell upon the humans, slaying them without mercy for harming one of their companions. A crowd of Frenchmen started to swarm across, as the ships locked in deadly combat, but they were shot down. Upon denial of her promotion, she leaves the University in a swarm of anger. From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour. At this point the leading ants panic and backtrack to the safety of the swarm. Not a single one of the tens of thousands of drunks that swarm round the station at night had even bothered to let the tyres down. Poorly cured skins of some darkly furred animal clothed it, adding to its emanating body odor, which attracted a small swarm of flies. Conspiracy is unnecessary when ideology hungers for power and its many adherents swarm of their own accord to the same pot of honey. This year Greg is endeavoring to add to his apiary by catching a wild swarm. As a swarm of roadies toiled about with their pre-show set-up, a revolutionary thought crossed my mind. In the dark oil Rats, the rodents swarm in a mass around the corner of a windowless red-brick building, perhaps a factory. Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries. The party ran out of the palace and looked up in the sky and saw a swarm of what looked like lava bees holding lava bombs. We also need to figure out how we can become cohesive units within our own party rather than a disoraganized swarm of attack dogs. Show More Sentences You stand in the way of a swarm of bats and you can expect to get horsewhipped to tarnation, boy! Looking tattily elegant, and hoping I'll be safe from stings, I climb a ladder and examine the swarm. But in fact, it makes it almost impossible to see which player is marking the ball, as other players swarm around you. Last year we just had a few little menacers indoors in May, then the big swarm in July, when all the wingers strut their stuff. During lunchtime, tourists and snorkellers swarm the beach to watch the baby blacktips, sergeant majors and butterflyfish. Any bomber that was damaged and fell out of formation was immediately set upon by a swarm of fighters. Only an attack by a voracious swarm of midges then spoilt a leisurely paddle under a warm, summer sun on a perfect, windless day. Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners swarm through into the welcoming arms of their West German brothers and sisters. As our river bus weaves in and out among the swarm of vaporetti, traghetti, gondolas and private craft, Venice begins to reveal itself. A swarm of brightly coloured flags, shirts, banners and placards competed for the eye's attention while a mishmash of languages filled the air. If he didn't miss the ball altogether he'd miskick it, usually into the path of the opposing swarm. Richard Gere sidles gracefully into the plush hotel suite, seemingly oblivious of the swarm of activity around him. These people barely look old enough to be in the room, and they're all dancing mopily with one another in a big, buzzy swarm. A swarm of blonds enters, catching whatever light there is in the ringlets of their hair. A swarm of bees arrived in Derrybeg last Sunday and decided to make a hive in a chimney pot in Third Avenue. Open car doors for the shortest time possible otherwise they'll bludge a lift in a great swarm on the windscreen. Sherri shrugged, picked up the clicker and flicked it off as the animated Mount'n Man was trying to out-run a swarm of angry cartoon bees. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars. Researchers say a swarm of bouncing, spherical bots the size of baseballs could hop across the red planet to search for life. The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats. Show More Sentences A swarm of bees cooperates to construct a hive. Humans group together to build towns, cities, and nations. The first day, she had burst into a fit of coughs after opening her mouth only having to have a fly swarm into her mouth. Tanen turned the starship around and launched a swarm of missiles towards the enemy. Then when we got there a swarm of locust like marketeers engulfed our hapless family. The seas teem with mullet, squid, cuttlefish, cardinal fish, and it is here they swarm in a forest of wire coral and black coral reefs. As the swarm weaved in her direction and freely over the open air, the bridge felt far too short for her. Be kind to the trees and they will bloom into flower for you and attract a flock of honeysuckers and a swarm of bees. At an open-air market in the city of Kisangani, flies swarm around severed goat heads, stacked up like a scene from a horror show. Yet everyone is out there mad with joy over a swarm of insects that will eat most every living plant in sight! With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting. An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black. However, the very next day they found a swarm of mature adults very near the surface off Anaa Island. But in October 1988 a swarm of desert locusts crossed the Atlantic traveling from Africa to the Caribbean. Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool. The whole time he was on top of her, a swarm of tiny insects hanging over his right shoulder, she kept the woods in her peripheral vision. He donned a protective suit and used a brush to gather the 4,000-strong swarm into a hive box before re-housing them. Back in the US, the Pentagon has announced that it has trained honey bees to sniff out and swarm to explosives instead of flowers. He explained why they swarm and how the queen is the centre of the swarm's activity. In 1990, a honey bee swarm unlike any before found in the United States was identified just outside the small south Texas town of Hidalgo. Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised. Show More Sentences The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards and was met by the flying hurl of Red Brian Murphy and then the net. Loup shouted, and a swarm of vehicles and troops charged from the base into the Oppressor line. Basso's team swarm around him like worker bees around their Queen, but they are in for a hard day in the saddle. A swarm of birds hopped from the nearby rooftops and sped off into the air. After decisively defeating a swarm of litigants claiming priority of conception he pursued a multitude of ideas and causes. The opening minutes saw the Trinity goal a swarm of bodies as Emmaus launched several attacks that had Trinity on the back foot. It permeates our affective landscape, impressing itself upon us so thoroughly that our very corporeal existence becomes host to a swarm of signs. We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly. The users' dislike of the application is actually caused by a swarm of tiny usability annoyances. Viropharma stock was one of his calls during this period, and his people piled into it hugely, followed by a swarm of tag-along momentum players. The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July. They were, in fact, driven back up the kloof by the swarm, and one of them was badly stung. Reckless scientists have created a swarm of flying quadrotors that react to human gestures and movements. In a stunning video that debuted this week in Las Vegas, he choreographs an aerial swarm of robot quadrotors to an electronic dance track. Dense schools of fusiliers swarm past, followed by squadrons of predators like big-eye trevally, mackerel and rainbow runners. The visual effect evoked a gentle snowstorm or a swarm of insects, associations which, it must be added, the artist regards as entirely incidental. This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light. And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town. Like the beekeeper taking his stand in the garden, it requires the prolonged use of miniaturized verbal trestles that can be dismantled once the swarm has gone. When the chicks hatched Hernan went up again, checking out the nests while the parents and auxiliaries seethed around his head like a swarm of belligerent box kites. Show More Sentences A swarm of desert locusts may consist of up to 50 billion individuals. Kiosks swarm round every underpass, Metro entrance and train station, selling anything from food and alcohol to pirated CD-ROMs and stereo components. They swarm in squalling packs on to the roads, heedless of the rush-hour traffic, defying drivers to confront their pig-headed rebellion against road safety. This is very good news, because bee lice have decimated wild bee populations around here, and this swarm may be a sign of recovery of the local population. Life magazine ran a photo of Lamarr with a swarm of reporters, looking beleaguered and delicate in white gloves and a pillbox hat. Darwin showed by an exemplary mathematical argument that the structure of the comb was precisely that which would minimize the amount of wax used by the swarm. Normally an air accident investigation would involve a swarm of hard-nosed engineers and scientists poring over wreckage. Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans. With the Senators seemingly moments away from a victory in their final game, hordes of fans began vaulting over the retaining walls and proceeded to swarm the playing field. Along the way, we remarked on the strange powdery consistency of the soil and marveled as we were surrounded by a swarm of infinitesimal white insects. The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests. They swarm in droves, pouring out of cars and vans with a mission to drive away with a fabulous treasure, for which they paid as little as possible. Melody had surprised herself with how calm she had acted and appeared even though inside a swarm of butterflies flitted nervously and a shiver ran down her spine. Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses. Finally, after perhaps several days of house-hunting, one of the sites gains overwhelming favour and the swarm moves off to start a new hive there. Being dinner for a swarm of insects is nobody's idea of a good time. Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller. While he was doing that, Marion Barry was still holding court for a swarm of reporters back towards the stage. While Maggie, Daryl, Sasha and the others frantically chip away at the undead swarm, Rick hesitates. When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site. Show More Sentences He hung up before she could say anything and found Bree and Matt amongst the swarm of students bunched around a makeshift stage in the TV room, where Acidburn was performing. As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars. The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll. She was sighted by a British aircraft, picked up again by the destroyer Sheffield, and in the evening attacked by a swarm of aircraft from the carrier Ark Royal. There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year. Researchers in Switzerland recently developed a concept to use a swarm of UAVs as a local communication network for emergency workers in disaster areas. When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome. Care would have to be taken to deflect the body intact rather than break it into pieces because a swarm of fragments might be more destructive than a single object. Still the pod drew nearer to the hive and risked entering the swarm. My bare legs were instantly stung by nettles, and a swarm of wasps gathered around the fake flower-reeds I had to drape myself in to become Titania. Cars swarm dangerously around them on this two-lane road carved, literally, into the side of a chain of mountains. The cause and outcome of the earthquake swarm are uncertain at this time. Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers. The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance. Studies on swarm robotics systems have shown the potential of large-scale multirobot systems based on decentralized control. The world's largest dike swarm is the Mackenzie dike swarm in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The sea breaks upon this coast against a palisadoed fence of rocks and cliffs, around which swarm flocks of polar birds with cries and screams. The most conspicuous aspect of the footage was the swarm of benthic amphipods. In hunting larger prey, crocodiles swarm in, with one holding the prey down as the others rip it apart. There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey. Show More Sentences By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. And he wore a Sherlock Holmesy kind of cap with a swarm of salmon flies upon it, that to my boyish fancy was more splendid than a crown. I separate my swarms with my smoke-pole, holding It near the swarm already settled, which will prevent others from settling. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. Neighboring cleaner wrasses and other reef fish swarm to dine at this banquet. Also known as Halloween Lady Beetles, apparently they often swarm at this time of year, trying to get into the house for the winter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed themselves till there was no getting out again. On countless occasions I've seen deer literally out of their minds under the onslaught of a midge or deer fly swarm attack. It seems to me a cold, antish trick. But the fire that is... I will use it against the ants, while they swarm over everything. Sharpton now escorted Fulton through the moving media swarm. The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves. Dario, Micromanipulation, communication and swarm intelligence issues in a swarm microrobotic platform, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. Thus, we make use of a swarm of agents to search heuristically and randomly. The fossils are tiny swarm cells, a stage in the development of the fungus myxomycetes, also known as slime moulds. A swarm of wasps tested this understanding by building a nest in a gray zone in the casing between an interior window and a storm window. During one skirmish, cannon-fire breaks the stone seal, unleashing hordes of mutants which swarm the globe, dragging victims into the machine to swell enemy ranks. Theories included a swarm of insects to a home-made smoke signal, but now it seems it was the result of a new pyrotechnic show being tested at nearby Warwick Castle. In addition, the action of the rotor creates bubble shear, giving rise to a broader swarm of smaller bubbles over a wider area, which increases surface-area-to-volume ratio. Admittedly, he was standing in the midst an agitated swarm of his monastery's bees at the time and I had gormlessly encroached upon their territory. Arachnophobia A VERY funny spoof on the old Hollywood bug invasion flicks, this 1990 skin-itcher had sleepy rural America overrun with a swarm of deadly Venezuelan nasties. Show More Sentences A dike swarm is a large geological structure consisting of a major group of parallel, linear, or radially oriented dikes intruded within continental crust. Temperate bat species may swarm at hibernation sites as fall apporaches. A group of jellyfish is sometimes called a bloom or a swarm. The dissolving of the brushstroke in Forest answers the compression of individual black points in Hive, 2003, into a swarm that emerges unmediated from the broad green ground. Examples from Classical Literature The streets and quays swarm with the most vociferous, dirty, multitudinous life. In the middle of the explanation a melodious sound was heard in the air above them, like a swarm of Brobdingnag bees. Ravines profound as night lie near the castled hills, in which all manner of noxious things swarm and multiply. Yet a centrosome appears later in the nucleus of the swarm spores and migrates into the cytoplasm. Red flags, red placards like a swarm of confetti on the walls and in the air. A swarm of children of every age, from the crawler upwards, was left in charge. Just such figures must swarm in the saharan cities, in the Soudan and Senegal. Another strange sight is the sandfly dance, in which a swarm of masked men make the air dark with their antics. Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle. I had brought home a swarm to reinforce them only the day before, and immediately united them by means of the fumigator. They made their way through a swarm of grubby children, and entered the porch. His plan was to hold tight with his knees while he jerked the grummet as high as it would go, and then to swarm up again and rest. Dahlia lived seven years her sister's housemate, nurse of the growing swarm. The moment a report of a gun is heard they'll swarm up to this room and get you. Pheola moaned, then keened, and waved her hands in front of her face, as if to ward off a swarm of bees. So long drawn-out is the thickest part of the swarm that it takes a year to pass the points at the level crossing. Kenniston, unable to turn from the life-or-death business of threading the swarm, heard the Jovian fighting furiously. I have got away from the wasp's nest only to tumble into the middle of the swarm! However, they put on their pertest manners, and went clustering after Hermod like a swarm of ladybirds. Observe how the whole swarm divide and make way for the pismire that passes through them! Show More Sentences If Gnats swarm in the summer in globular masses, it is supposed to prognosticate a storm. A swarm of naked brats with a frouzy Indian wife set up a howl of woe. A swarm surrounded the drug store, the glass door of which stood open. It was beset by a throng of promoters and stock-jobbers, who fell upon it and upon the public like a swarm of seventeen-year locusts. Carefully and sagaciously the veteran knight chose out his men from the swarm of volunteers. The song was of a swarm of bees, and of a robber wasp who had come in to live with the bees and who was stealing all their honey. The cause of her peevishness was a swarm of intensely active flies. Tourists swarm over the country from the Naze to the North Cape. Every moment he expected to see it disgorge a swarm of octopi. Every swarm of meteors in the solar system was carefully plotted. The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor. The tramcar became entangled in their ranks, and moved on painfully, like a caterpillar in a swarm of ants. Away to the westward like a swarm of fire-flies hung the lights of Hythe. But the sprinkling was a swarm in the Twickenham cottage, and filled it. Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins would swarm up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts. The little swarm shivered as they watched the dwarf drone-grubs squirm feebly on the grass. And as for cleanliness, my house is cleaner than any other house on the Common, though the half of 'em swarm with women. And springing up, he ran to the bowsprit and began to swarm along it. A swarm of airships came into view, swirling in savage fight. We will deploy a swarm of 40 Pixie chipsats, each a little smaller than a typical TV remote control, across the surface of the Didymoon. Show More Sentences When a swarm of hornets attacks a horse, and it rears, who wonders? There used to be a swarm of these small apparitions in holiday time, and we called them children of the Lord of Misrule. In the alley the grey cat crouched behind barrels filled with torn paper and broken bottles above which flew a black swarm of flies. Harlequin horrors My neighbour told me about the swarm of Harlequin ladybirds which were trying to get into her house last week. Not one of the swarm of reporters who thronged the Philadelphia Centennial had regarded the telephone as a matter of any public interest. Two russet-clad varlets, with loud halloo and cracking whips, walked thigh-deep amid the swarm, guiding, controlling, and urging. Well, it was noble to see Launcelot and the boys swarm up onto that scaffold and heave sheriffs and such overboard. They swarm jerkily in it so that the liquid seemed to seethe. In the lighted space before one of the lamps, two bats wheeled and circled, pursuing the gathering swarm of night flies. Certain then of finding their delinquent debtors, the creditors swarm in and torment them, asking when they intend to pay, and threatening to attach their salaries. He entered the church, now, with a swarm of clean and noisy boys and girls, proceeded to his seat and started a quarrel with the first boy that came handy. Now, these tumbling tenements contain, by night, a swarm of misery. These lodes comprise a swarm of E-trending, narrow, vertical to sub-vertical shears composed of crushed schist, quartz veins, stringers, and puggy clay. The swarm watched the light leaking through the cracks all the long night. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of swarm? Words that rhyme with swarm What is the past tense of swarm? What is the plural of swarm? What is the adverb for swarm? What is the adjective for swarm? What is the noun for swarm? Translations for swarm Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words swarf sware swards Sward sward swaraj swarmed swarming swarm of bees swarms swarovski swart 5-letter Words Starting With s sw swa swar