Hornets [noun]

A writhing ball of bees “cooks” or smothers a hornet to death, says Mattila.

She wanted to know whether I’d figured out how to make our little patch of Amandola a no-fly zone for hornets.

Inside a walk-in cooler, where the cold temperatures stunted the insects’ mobility, the scientists cracked the tree open with a sledgehammer and collected hornets at various stages of life.

That hornet spread at an average rate of about 100 kilometers per year.

He’s a hornet specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

But after it all, he asked me to marry him, and was as mad as a hornet, and said dreadful things to me when I refused him.

War broke out soon afterward and he became an officer on the Hornet, though still only a boy.

Do you know how a hornet behaves when a mischievous boy throws a stone at its nest?

When the Constitution went south to Brazil at that time the Hornet went with her, but they soon parted.

The Chesapeake was taken in just fifteen minutes, one minute more than the Hornet had taken to capture the Peacock.