bumble

Example Sentences

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Six bumble bee colonies foraged in a shared arena where they could approach feeders that either had ants nearby or had no ants at all.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

Could 9-8 be enough to bumble into the playoffs this season?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

When, in the farcical, action-oriented second half, some attempt to execute a … plot, they bumble and argue and push each other to the front.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

Despite all the heavy talk, the film is peppered with moments of levity - the director occasionally cuts away abruptly from tough conversations to run footage of soothing shorelines and bumble bees on flowers.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2024

There was the sound like a great matted yellow hive of bees within a dark bellows, the lazy bumble of a purring lion.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury