How to Use pollinator in a Sentence

pollinator

noun

• Yes, this is the time to watch the pollinators do their thing.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2019
• Over the past five years, much of what used to be short grass now bursts with food for birds and pollinators.
  — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• State of play: Bees are key pollinators for up to a third of all the world's food supply.
  — Russell Contreras, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
• In such a case, there's very little space for Species A's pollen on the pollinator's body.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
• The cityscape has become a hospitable home to the pollinators.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 July 2023
• One of the most common causes of plum tree problems is the lack of a pollinator.
  — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2021
• Only the female plants produce cones for use as hops (the male plants are the pollinators).
  — Barb Sands, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• Or is white clover in the lawn a weed or a great plant for attracting pollinators like bees?
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• There are also a lot of non-native pollinator plants that are great to use.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2023
• The April 18 session is on pollinators and how to support them.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
• This program will discuss the plight of native pollinators and plants that support them in the wild and in the home landscape.
  — Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
• Native plants and pollinators are in trouble due to the loss of habitats, Blaine said.
  — Gloria Casas, Elgin Courier-News, 23 June 2018
• The flowers open from the bottom up, and are covered with pollinators.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
• Families will take home a pollinator-friendly native plant at the end of the course.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• This also plays into the hope that schools in the future will take field trips to visit the pollinator garden.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
• The university says the state has a diverse set of native bees, but habitat loss is a threat to the pollinators.
  — USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
• The first one counted the overall number of any kind of pollinator that flew into the rings and landed on at least one flower.
  — Jennifer Clare Ball, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
• There are about 750 species of figs, each of which has a particular fig wasp as its pollinator.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
• Each year, pollinators such as birds, insects, and small mammals visit the plants to drink from their large amounts of nectar.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
• The purple pollinator pictured on the right is under $5!
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• Just letting your grass grow, without the right weeds and flowers, does not provide any kind of food for pollinators.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
• The loss of pollinators like the monarch could have far-reaching consequences for ecosystems and the people who rely on them.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
• Fix that problem with convenient pollinator push-ups that'll have them all swarming the area in no time.
  — Brittney Morgan and Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2022
• For a long time, the honeybee was characterized as a canary in the coal mine, an omen of catastrophe for the rest of the world’s pollinators.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Birds and other pollinators flock to salvia, buckwheat and yarrow.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• The wolves, feeding on the flowers’ sweet nectar, might act as pollinators because of the remnants of pollen on their muzzles.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• Among the choices are a pollinator kit (16 plants with four plugs of each species), partial shade kit, clay/deer resilient kit and a rain garden/too wet to mow kit.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 Feb. 2022
• Its chief pollinator is the eastern tiger swallowtail, one of the largest butterflies of the Northeast.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
• In the garden, there are benches ideal for contemplation amid the hum of pollinators and the caress of soft breezes.
  — Frances MacDougall, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
• They will be buried together in their garden at home, among the kumquat tree and blueberry bushes, the white azaleas and roses, and the pollinator plants.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025