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Meanings of hornet in English
1944 Fighter aircraft family by de Havilland.
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The largest European wasp (Vespa crabro) with black and yellow stripes on the abdomen.
Civil defense siren model manufactured by Whelen Engineering.
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Usage of hornet in English
1
Aggie came in at three-thirty with a hornet sting and no water.
2
In sudden formation the aeronauts hornet away over the new low hills.
3
Besides the cicada, the sand hornet captures grasshoppers and other large insects.
4
He didn't expect to stir up a hornet's nest, now did he?
5
Mary's reply arrived in tones like a hornet stinging slowly and often.
6
It's wet, and here is a dead hornet stuck fast to it.
7
You're inviting me to put my head into the liveliest hornet's nest.
8
Lionel batted irritably at a hornet, and gazed out over the yard.
9
If we could only find a hornet's nest again, we could manage.
10
Pa's as mad as a hornet, and-and-andhequirted us-yes, he did.
11
Above him, Bastard John fussed around below the docks like a hornet.
12
Pennington was determined to stir up a hornet's nest for Dave Darrin.
13
The temptation to untie that ribbon niggled me like a hornet bite.
14
And one of Nimble's points had stung Dodger like a hornet's sting.
15
Do you know into what hornet's nest your stupid people have blundered?
16
Once again, she'd been mad as a hornet when she left him.
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