How to Use hummer in a Sentence

hummer

noun

• A hummer was feeding at the flowers.
• 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
• 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
• Is there a wider problem that might be causing this disappearance of hummers?
  — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
• For a week or longer a female was the dominant bird, perching on a favorite branch and leaving it only to drink or to chase off two other hummers.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Two summer-flowering shade perennials are sure to draw the hummers.
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• For some gardens, attracting hummers is as easy as hanging a feeder.
  — NOLA.com, 15 July 2017
• 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
• Feeders also have been set up to record hummer activity for bird researchers on campus.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• The fire-engine red color of the feeder easily attracts hummers, and the four feeding ports can accommodate multiple birds.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• This should prevent one hummer from dominating all feeders.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Led by two electric massive electric Hummers, several thousand people marched in downtown Los Angeles.
  — Shane Newell, Orange County Register, 22 Apr. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024