POLLEN in a Sentence

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Example sentences for POLLEN, such as:

1. As the day goes on, the pollen dries up and becomes hard.
2. Avoid trips to the country while the pollen count is high.
3. Certain varieties cannot be fertilised with their own pollen.
4. The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.
5. Flowers are designed to attract insects which then carry the pollen from plant to plant.

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 Meanings and Examples of POLLEN
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pollen
 n.  fine granular substance produced in flowers; fine bran or flour
Classic Sentence:
1  A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
2  A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
3  At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
Example Sentence:
1  Avoid trips to the country while the pollen count is high.
2  Certain varieties cannot be fertilised with their own pollen.
3  As the day goes on, the pollen dries up and becomes hard.
4  Flowers are designed to attract insects which then carry the pollen from plant to plant.
5  The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.