How to Use pollen in a Sentence

pollen

noun

• Clear Things Up With the spring comes the spawn, along with the pollen.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
• The insect lands on a plant, and pollen sticks to the insect.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2022
• Mud, sand, and pollen are no match for these Dyson faves.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 2 July 2024
• Keep your windows and doors closed to reduce the amount of pollen that can get in.
  — Maria Masters, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• Rain — which tends to scrub pollen from the air — has been mostly MIA since Aug. 29.
  — Nick Halter, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• To that end, do any of the dancers have strong pollen allergies?
  — Hartford Courant, 11 July 2022
• It’s finished with beeswax cream and sprinkles of bee pollen on the top.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2022
• The zoo is working to get pollen to help the plant pollinate.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 20 July 2022
• The Blue Pure Max unit clears the air of odor and pollen quickly — and does it quietly.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• The city’s port and economy are booming, and progress hangs like pollen in the air.
  — Alex Pulaski, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• Still, there were no reliable traces of the flowers from which the pollen came.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023
• Mites, thrips, aphids and some pollen and plant juices round out their diet.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• The air around us contains water droplets, dust, pollen, and ash.
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
• Use a dry cloth or soft brush to gently wipe away any loose pollen or dust.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2023
• Jonathan Gitlin The rain is about 50 percent pollen by volume in May.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
• In mid-May the air is heavy with tree pollen, and the leaves are still unfolding, still bright, still soft.
  — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• The Christmas cactus has less spikey pads with rounder edges, and its pollen is pink.
  — Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
• Spring is a time of rebirth, of resurgence, of flowers in bloom and pollen and sneezes.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• But a lot of the pollen in his sediment cores didn’t seem to be from nearby.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• This one can take on all the unwanted houseguests, from pollen and smoke to germs.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
• The pollen might be deposited but becomes too dry to stick to the surface.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
• These powerful vibrations eject pollen from the anther pores in the form of a cloud that strikes the bee.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Fossilized pollen shows grasses and marshes once reached near the site of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022
• Tree pollen is still high at 182 grains per cubic meter of air.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• The art consisted of four blue flowers with gold pollen.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
• Some of the particles are big enough to see—the dust in your living room, for example, or the pollen on your car.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• The team gloves the fingerlike flowers with white bags and zip-ties them — an effort to control the flow of pollen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• The black mailbox at the entrance to the kennels was covered in pollen and spiderwebs.
  — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Analysis of pollen preserved in the layered sediments shows that the forest has stood here for at least 8,300 years.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• Therefore, windows close to trees and other foliage should be cleaned more frequently than windows away from any sources of pollen or sap.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024