The only sexually mature female in a colony of honeybees.
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Examples for "queen"
Examples for "queen"
1He was quite sure he knew what the young queen was thinking.
2Obama met the queen three times, including a state visit in 2011.
3The queen dropped in a fainting-fit; and the brute left the room.
4Therefore, I plan to offer our resignation to the queen, he said.
5For thousands of years he experimented, concealing his work from the queen.
1A good Italian queen bee sells for a little over a dollar.
2The queen bee zips between them and whirls impatiently in the corridor.
3But the swarm can sting, and will come for the queen bee.
4This, she thought, is how it must feel to be a queen bee.
5The fertility of the queen bee has been much under-estimated by most writers.
6The extraordinary fertility of the queen bee has already been noticed.
7There is the popular set, dominated by an outgoing queen bee.
8The queen bee was taken away, but the hive went on.
9While the queen bee remains there may be a hive again.
10The queen bee emits pheromones, chemical messages, to her drones, her worker bees.
11His progress was not unlike that of a queen bee at swarming time.
12Taken to the queen bee, the Big Babe of the Bourkas?
13He was swarmed like a queen bee by photographers and reporters and aides.
14Lasker was the center of this collective, its nucleating force, its queen bee.
15She looked like she was wearing a queen bee's egg sac.
16To be sure, there was a woman prime minister: a queen bee, no feminist.