How to Use swarm in a Sentence

swarm

1 of 2 noun
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  • When a cement truck blocked the lane, the swarm simply took to the sidewalk.
    — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • What’s most concerning isn’t the swarm of satellites but the types.
    — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • There were celebrities, tattoos and even a swarm of bees.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
  • The swarm event will feature Group 1- and Group 2-size flyers.
    — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • There is a difference between a swarm of cells and a swarm of birds.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Instead of a swarm of angry bees, Spot sounds like a bad day at the dentist.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Once Bae goes bye, a swarm of servers appears to clean up the dozens of pieces of salt that litter the countertop and the floor.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The clip blew up online with a swarm of memes and Kylie Jenner even poked fun at her sister.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The Houthis have fired drone swarms, cruise missiles, and anti-ship missiles.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The year is 1957, and this the first time in the film that the swarm of Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos has been bottlenecked into a city.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Dunk the handle of a wooden spoon into hot oil and watch for a swarm of tiny bubbles to fizzle around it.
    — Charlotte Druckman / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin, Prop Styling By Valeria Suasnavas , WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Flying buzziness class:Delta flight delayed by a swarm of bees.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels have used swarms of drones to target shipping in the Red Sea, launching at least 21 in one attack this month.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The Little Couple's Bill Klein has been left with a broken elbow after a run-in with a swarm of wasps.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The benefit of a swarm is that some can break down, and the life-giving mining will continue.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • The game was delayed for five minutes in the bottom of the first inning because of a swarm of honey bees in left-center field.
    — Todd Karpovich, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • It was preceded by an earthquake swarm at 9 p.m., the office said.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In the Russia-Ukraine war, drone conflict has often meant swarms of dozens of drones attacking at once.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The movement was at high risk of fizzling out, but Green and his swarm of fans, called nerdfighters, have given it new life.
    — Lizzy Lawrence and Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Amy McKeever has news for you: There will be an even bigger swarm in the Midwest in 2021.
    — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • Gates was defeated, too, when Eugene unleashed his beloved swarm of bees on the fake teacher.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Clouds of insects no longer hover in such big swarms, and some key species, like the salmonfly, that are critical sources of food for fish are less abundant.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In the summer of 2019, when joking about omens of the apocalypse still seemed fun, a swarm of grasshoppers descended on the Las Vegas Strip.
    — Joshua Sokol New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • And once the sun goes down, the problem shifts to mosquito swarms and other annoying warm-weather pests.
    — Kelly Dawson, House Beautiful, 6 July 2023
  • For Alana Miller, the organizer of the party, filling the space with a swarm of DeVito lookalikes was itself the point.
    — Megan Paetzhold, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2022
  • If stocks are low, Moscow could send swarms of self-destructing drones.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Before long, he’s subsumed by a swarm of bucking bodies, and chaos prevails.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Yet even with a swarm of mosquitos chasing them, that, too, took longer than expected.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • If the bear stumbled into Bodega Bay while all the crows, sparrows, and gulls were losing their goddamn minds, she’d be overwhelmed by the swarm.
    — Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Or, even simpler: swarms of flying digital projectors could have broadcasted the footage on the sides of buildings and walls for all to see.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
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swarm

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  • By now, the puffins had vacated the area, and gulls swarmed the sea caves.
    — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Mayflies – tasty morsels for bats – swarmed in the humid air.
    — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Paramedics swarmed the building — the help for which Díaz-Muñoz had begged, his wife said.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The bees emerged from the bag and swarmed on the man, authorities say.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But so many people had swarmed the market that the Wi-Fi crashed.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Charging suit-and-tie men and pantsuit women swarmed the block.
    — Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The spotted lanternfly can swarm and take out big swaths of crops.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The next Red Cross bus was soon swarmed, with people banging on its sides.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Warplanes swarmed low in the sky, seeming to hover one above the other.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • As news crews swarmed the Foleys’ house and phone calls poured in, Foley grew angry.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Betty retreated to the back of the room as doctors and nurses swarmed in.
    — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Even for a journalist, Phil has a head swarming with words.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Crowds of Stanley stans swarming Target this week to get their hands on one proves as much.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 5 Jan. 2024
  • As Amos headed to the porch to get some bug spray, the cluster of bees grew bigger and began swarming him.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • The crowd was swarmed when the influencer finally arrived at the park.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Just stay after a match and watch kids swarm the players for autographs.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Video from the Tennis Channel showed bees swarming over a piece of equipment.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Early on the morning of October 7th, Hamas fighters swarmed the lush grounds of Kfar Aza.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • And by the late 2000s, smartphones and tablets had swarmed the market, slowing demand for desktops and laptops even more.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The first half played out in five acts: — Duquesne’s swarming perimeter defense held the Cougars without a point for five minutes.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In response to her post, fans swarmed the comment section to also reminisce about the past.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The mob of people swarmed the five agents handing them, pushing to try and make a line while almost trampling each other.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Crowds swarmed downtown Moscow on a sunny day, and street cafes were packed with customers.
    — NBC News, 25 June 2023
  • This summer, tourists have swarmed Europe in record numbers.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • New York’s defense is swarming too, so this could be a low-scoring affair.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The cell phone video shows dozens of young Israeli men swarming by the half dozen gas pumps, shouting in anger, rampaging past the queuing cars.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But when the item went on sale, scalpers swarmed the museum, fighting over merchandise, as shown in some online videos.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Soon after, their street was swarmed by armed officers and flashing lights.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Authorities swarmed the area shortly after noon in search of the shooter.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2023
  • Commenters swarmed in with a combination of nickname suggestions and reassurance that the mom would feel like the name fit her little one in time.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024

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