hornet

Example Sentences

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My blood gets hot, making me tremble, and a buzzing starts in my ears, like a nest of angry hornets has been released.

From Literature

Asian hornets arrived in Jersey in 2016 and I&E said they are treated as an invasive species because they are aggressive predators of native insects and pose a threat to honey bees.

From BBC

But to his surprise, Wolf leapt up as if he’d been stung by a hornet.

From Literature

Shadi lives in Melbourne, in Australia, but her parents' home is in a neighbourhood of Tehran known as "the hornet's nest".

From BBC

Curiously, I never really got angry at the North Koreans, on the assumption that if you kick the hornet’s nest and get stung, you can’t really blame the hornets.

From The Wall Street Journal