How to Use pollinate in a Sentence

pollinate

verb

• The plants are pollinated by bees.
• The lights planned for the wall could disrupt the bats that pollinate the saguaro.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The zoo is working to get pollen to help the plant pollinate.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 20 July 2022
• Carrion flies and beetles are drawn to the stinky smell and pollinate the plant.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 16 June 2024
• The plants have to be pollinated to produce berries, and the bees didn't do their part.
  — Bob Gross, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2017
• In all, bees pollinate about $15 billion worth of food crops in the US each year.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• From March to June, the bees will pollinate your yard and lay their offspring in the nesting box.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 17 Mar. 2020
• The wildlife species that move in may pollinate crops or control pests.
  — Claire Kremen, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020
• Then, collect the pollen that shakes out with a spoon to pollinate other flowers of the same type of plant.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2021
• The flower pollinates via a thick, sticky liquid that dries on to flies.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2023
• The Chicago City Hall's roof is home for beehives, which help pollinate the green roof plants.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Eighty-four percent of crops grown need bees to pollinate them.
  — Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 19 July 2017
• The name Blue Bat Kitchen is a reference to blue agave plants used to make tequila and the bats that pollinate the plants, the owners said.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
• Honey bees pollinate about one-third of the crops consumed by people in the U.S.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
• On top of that, grass started pollinating at the same time.
  — Maureen Langley, Post-Tribune, 3 July 2018
• This means that a flower has as many as 500 ovules that need to be pollinated to make a single berry.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 27 June 2019
• Honeybees gather in the hive and then go out into the world to pollinate.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2022
• The world’s largest hornet is much more of a threat to honeybees that are relied on to pollinate crops.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
• Bees hover in a sea of green, searching for a flower to pollinate.
  — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• This species is not grown for its fruit, but instead used to pollinate other figs.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
• Flowers and the insects that pollinate them are falling out of sync.
  — Dean Fosdick, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2020
• The bee shows up and there is nothing there for it, but the flower gets pollinated anyway.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• And losses of species that pollinate plants would threaten up to $577 billion in crops each year.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• The bugs pollinate the flower as its peak bloom occurs around midnight.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• Figs are self pollinating since the fig itself is the flower.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2023
• So, plant one or two to attract them to your garden to pollinate other plants.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• As long as the female flowers get pollinated, you're set to go.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2019
• The flavor of these apples vary, depending on the bees that pollinate them.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• Grasses pollinate in the spring, trees and weeds during the summer and fall, and mountain cedar during the winter, according to Baylor College of Medicine.
  — Shafaq Patel, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
• Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate.
  — Rachel Mallinger, The Conversation, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024