SWARM in a Sentence

Learn SWARM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

83 example sentences for SWARM, such as:

1. The garden is swarming with wasps.
2. A swarm of bees flew into the garden.
3. There is a swarm of bees in the tree.
4. His office was swarmed with many reporters.
5. The dead sheep was covered with swarms of flies.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWARM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
swarm
 n.  dense moving crowd; large group of honeybees
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  They would swarm around her like bees around a hive, and certainly Ashley would be drawn from Melanie to join the circle of her admirers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  I wouldn't put anything beyond the swarm of buzzards that's swooping down on Georgia now from north, east, south and west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  We had been in jail scarcely twenty minutes, when a swarm of slave traders, and agents for slave traders, flocked into jail to look at us, and to ascertain if we were for sale.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown swarm of running men who were giving shrill yells.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  But we got them laid in, and all the other things; and you never see a cabin as blithesome as Jim's was when they'd all swarm out for music and go for him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.
7  Yes," said the grandmother, "she flies where the swarm hangs in the thickest clusters.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
8  When he passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and surrounded him like a swarm of gnats.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
9  There is a perfect swarm and an excellent one there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
10  These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
11  But others swarm up; nor meanwhile do stones nor any sort of missile slacken.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
12  High atop of it, wonderful to tell, bees borne with loud humming across the liquid air girt it thickly about, and with interlinked feet hung in a sudden swarm from the leafy bough.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
13  In the centre were visible the brazen war-fleets of Actium; thou mightest see all Leucate swarm in embattled array, and the waves gleam with gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
14  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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  These infernal people seem to think that there are no rights of property, and that they can swarm where they like with their papers and their bottles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Example Sentence:
1  An attack by a swarm of the reddish-brown insects can cause allergic reactions which can be fatal in extremely rare cases.
2  But in Manhattan, the swarm is always out there, moving in its mysterious but purposeful way.
3  The locust swarm has destroyed all the crops and vegetables.
4  In May or June bees generally swarm, that is, the bees having become too numerous for the hive, a portion of them go forth to seek a new abode.
5  There is a swarm of bees in the tree.
6  A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
7  A swarm of bees flew into the garden.
8  Ludicrously irrelevant thoughts swarmed in her head.
9  His office was swarmed with many reporters.
10  The garden is swarming with wasps.
11  The dead sheep was covered with swarms of flies.