How to Use hummer in a Sentence
hummer
noun- A hummer was feeding at the flowers.
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If a bug gets caught in the web, the hummer will swoop in and grab it before the spider can do anything about it.
—Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
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And naturally, the only way to be comfortable was riding a stretch hummer the length of a city block.
—Jodi Walker, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2021
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Something might have happened to the hummer, preventing her from returning to the nest, in which case the eggs will never hatch.
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2017
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Once in a while somebody catches a snakehead, but these ho-hummers don’t seem to be in any hurry to take over the nation’s waterways.
—Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2020
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The hummers usually find it within a week and keep coming back, often the same date, for years on their migratory routes.
—Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 29 Mar. 2020
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Two summer-flowering shade perennials are sure to draw the hummers.
—Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
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For some gardens, attracting hummers is as easy as hanging a feeder.
—NOLA.com, 15 July 2017
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But the tiniest of these hummers was the one that elicited the most excitement: a Festive coquette, an extremely rare green-crested bird with a white rump patch, only three inches long.
—James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
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Feeders also have been set up to record hummer activity for bird researchers on campus.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
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Whereas ordinary birds pull themselves aloft with just the downstroke of their wings, insects and hummers generate lift in both directions.
—Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
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Found only in Cuba, the itty-bitty bee hummingbird, the world’s smallest bird, weighing less than a dime, is adapted to drink nectar from flowers too small for any other hummer.
—National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2018
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During public plant sales (such as the season finale this Saturday), the hummers occasionally dive-bomb customers who attempt to purchase plants the birds like best.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
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The Allen’s and Rufous hummers are migratory visitors and similar in appearance with males, having orange backs and vivid red throats.
—Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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Moments relaxing on my patio seem to fly by when watching hummers compete for nectar with visiting summer orioles.
—Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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Led by two electric massive electric Hummers, several thousand people marched in downtown Los Angeles.
—Shane Newell, Orange County Register, 22 Apr. 2017
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Planting a garden full of hummingbird-attracting plants, in addition to maintaining feeders, is a more reliable method for successfully attracting hummers.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 22 July 2017
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