How to Use hummingbird in a Sentence

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• The hummingbirds and bees and birds are out there all the time.
  — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Listen for the sounds of the wind, the bees buzzing, the clicking of the hummingbirds, and the chirping of the birds.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The warm June air rushed through the window and made a sound like the roar of hummingbird wings.
  — Anna Armstrong, Longreads, 9 Dec. 2017
• In the box is a stuffed hummingbird — of a species that should not exist.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• The bee hummingbird is the tiniest living bird in the world.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
• Be sure to keep an eye out for bunnies and hummingbirds along the way.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 26 Feb. 2023
• And it’s not even a hummingbird or a swan or a peacock.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• In the books and movies, the Golden Snitch is a metal ball with wings that darts around like a hummingbird.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
• The 718 is a hummingbird: light, focused, and sparkling, a joy to behold.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
• No one wants to see a hummingbird slam into a glass door over and over.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 15 Dec. 2017
• Here are a few tips on how to attract hummingbirds to your back yard.
  — Joe Songer | [e-mail], AL.com, 11 May 2017
• Blame the bird feeders — all three of them (plus a bird bath and a hummingbird feeder, of course).
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• Some of the hummingbirds may still have young in the nest, but most have finished their nesting.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 5 July 2019
• The Anna's hummingbird can even reach speeds of 60 miles per hour.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
• If one hummingbird is at the feeder and a second comes along, a fight breaks out.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
• In 2020 there were two, a lesser goldfinch and an Allen's hummingbird, Brady said.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2021
• Spring is in the air in Michigan and hummingbirds are making their way north.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
• Geri’d said, shaking her head at the weeping, the sobbing, as the last bit of life eked out of that last hummingbird.
  — Manuel Gonzales, Wired, 2 Mar. 2020
• Spring is here in Michigan and hummingbirds are on their way north.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2023
• But lo and behold, at the bus stop, Lopez spots a beautiful hummingbird in the rain.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• Like most bird species, the male hummingbird is more ornate.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• A sandpiper’s egg is shaped like a teardrop, an owl’s like a golf ball, and a hummingbird’s like a jelly bean.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017
• Aidan also pointed out that in the trees above, there flew a hummingbird.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2021
• Both the hummingbird and the giant tortoise have an equal number of ticks.
  — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• These are tiny little birds, and think of, a hummingbird weighs about as much as a penny.
  — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
• Many of the specimens, like the one in Schreiber’s palm, were rufous hummingbirds.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• There, a flower works like a jack-in-the-box to shove its stamens into a hummingbird's face.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2018
• Phair flits through the gallery like a hummingbird, all flowing hair and floaty boho-chic maxidress.
  — Emily Gould, The Cut, 26 Apr. 2018
• How well a hummingbird perch works is dependent upon the food source nearby.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024
• Wildlife abounds in the hills around Mammoth, from deer and javelinas to hummingbirds and Gila monsters, one of which showed up right in their home’s interior courtyard.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025