hornet
Example Sentences
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In 2019 there was the discovery in this state of the murder hornet, now known as the Northern giant hornet, the first detected in the Pacific Northwest.
From Seattle Times
Scott Adams sat for his regular YouTube show last month with a plan to stir a hornet’s nest.
From Washington Post
One day, he recalled, he and several other boys threw rocks at a hornet’s nest in an old apple tree, hoping to topple it.
From New York Times
Nina Olson, a former head of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, said that when Werfel came into the IRS in the summer of 2013, ”he walked into a hornet’s nest.”
From Seattle Times
The first buzz is soft, like that of a hornet’s nest.
From Seattle Times
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