swarm meaning and examples
Meaning
- Swarm (noun): A large group of insects, especially flying ones like bees, moving together.
- Swarm (verb): To move in a large group or crowd, often quickly and in a disorderly way.
Grammar and Usage
- As a noun: "a swarm of + insects/people/animals"
- As a verb (intransitive): "to swarm" → to gather or move in great numbers.
- As a verb (transitive): sometimes used with an object, e.g., "be swarmed by reporters."
Sentence patterns
- Noun: a swarm of bees / a swarm of tourists
- Verb: People swarmed into the stadium.
- Passive: The celebrity was swarmed by fans.
Common Phrases
- a swarm of bees/flies/locusts – insects moving in a mass
- swarm with – to be full of (e.g., The beach was swarming with tourists.)
- be swarmed by – surrounded or crowded by a group
Collocations
- swarm of insects
- swarm of people
- swarming bees
- swarming with activity
- swarmed by reporters
Examples
- A swarm of bees flew out of the hive.
- Tourists swarmed the streets during the festival.
- The garden was swarming with butterflies in summer.
- Reporters swarmed around the actor as he left the courthouse.
- Locusts swarmed across the fields, destroying the crops.
- Fans swarmed the stage after the concert ended.
- The lake was swarming with mosquitoes at dusk.
- The police station was swarmed by angry protesters.
- Noun: horde, crowd, throng, mass, cluster
- Verb: flood, mob, overrun, gather, flock
