bee
Example Sentences
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“There was a groupthink happening, a hierarchy,” she said, all the way up to a “queen bee.”
“I use it as a bee and wasp killer,” another wrote.
One says "bees" - within it are dozens of knitted and cuddly insects - a nod to 10-year-old Matilda Bee, the youngest victim of the attack.
From BBC
We had spelling bees and math marathons, or we stood up and said what we were going to do that summer, or what we would do if we were king of the world.
From Literature
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"The queen bee gave me a blank stare and said: 'You've ruined my night.'"
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.