Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: swarm
IPA transcription: [sw'ɔɹm]
Pronunciations of swarm
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: drove, horde, swarm
    Meaning: a moving crowd
  • Synonyms: swarm, cloud
    Meaning: a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: teem, pullulate, swarm
    Meaning: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
  • Synonyms: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate
    Meaning: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
Usage examples
  • Genii swarm there.
  • The swarm of bleak scatters in wild panic.
  • In one of my hives, was an artificial swarm of the previous year.
  • One horrible thought glanced across the minds of both Kennedy and the doctor: caymans swarm in these waters!
  • Its tongue was out, its jaws dry, its limbs extended lifelessly, and a swarm of black ants were crawling about its lips and throat.
  • A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.
  • Once the story gets out, the river will crawl with expeditions and the airships rise like a swarm of mosquitoes." I laughed as I thought of it.
  • If to the blind but convergent and harmonious instincts of a swarm of bees should be suddenly added reflection and judgment, the little society could not long exist.
  • Now they arrive, and the alarm in the swarm of bleak below spreads with magical swiftness to the upper layers, where the bewildered little creatures make off at full speed.
  • Just as the swarm of bees is composed of individual bees, alike in nature and equal in value, so the honeycomb is formed of individual cells, constantly and invariably repeated.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Dyson sphere, License CC BY-SA 4.0