How to Use pollinator in a Sentence

pollinator

noun
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  • 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
  • There are also a lot of non-native pollinator plants that are great to use.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2023
  • 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 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
  • The demonstration includes a tour of the farmstead and its pollinator garden.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Even mildly dirty air could kill 80% of giant Asian honey bees, a key pollinator in South Asia.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2020
  • As always, the event will include talks on the best ways to grow vegetables, plant flowers to attract pollinators and take care of fruit trees.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Learn to attract and provide habitat for a range of pollinators.
    — oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Each purchase comes with a pollinator, a vibrating wand, a spoon to collect pollen, and a base for storage.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Worldwide, three out of four crops across the globe that provide food for humans depend on pollinators.
    — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Bees evolved some 125 million years ago, and the plants produced nectar to secure them as pollinators.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 23 Oct. 2019

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