POLLEN in a Sentence

Learn POLLEN from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For POLLEN, below is one of 8 sentences:
At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours.

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 Meanings and Examples of POLLEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pollen
 n.  fine granular substance produced in flowers; fine bran or flour
Classic Sentence:
1  A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
2  A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
3  At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
Example Sentence:
1  Avoid trips to the country while the pollen count is high.
2  Certain varieties cannot be fertilised with their own pollen.
3  As the day goes on, the pollen dries up and becomes hard.
4  Flowers are designed to attract insects which then carry the pollen from plant to plant.
5  The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.