Sentence examples for like a bumblebee from inspiring English sources

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The euro is like a bumblebee.

"Actually, more like a bumblebee," the cameraman said.

This hoverfly takes the deception a stage further and looks exactly like a bumblebee – it even flies like a bumblebee.

Odd yellow plastic shields over the hand grips made it look like a bumblebee.

He matched the courtside floral arrangements in black shorts and a yellow shirt, looking like a bumblebee.

Here is the last sentence from Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant that Eudora Welty admired so much: "And high above, he seemed to recall, there had been a little brown airplane, almost motionless, droning through the sunshine like a bumblebee".

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("We just got a bad blood-pressure reading, we need to exercise, and we'll feel happier when we do"; "It's sort of like asking a bumblebee how it flies"; "Anyone can jump out of a plane and pretend they're flying for ten minutes"; "We have already hit the iceberg and the S. S. Humanity's going down").

The only times a cat rushes about is when a) it's fun to do so (like chasing a bumblebee) b) the chase has food at the end of it, or c) when they are chasing each other, during mating season.

He said he looked like a "ninja bumblebee".

Her shoes matched the petals and her purse, which was black-and-yellow striped, hung over her shoulder, buzzing the flowers like a lazy bumblebee.

A bumblebee nest is not organised into hexagonal combs like that of a honeybee; the cells are instead clustered together untidily.

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