honeycomb
Example Sentences
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“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.
The accoutrements make it even more fun: a honeycomb box, spiced cherry preserves, and fig-and-olive crisps.
From Salon
In Australia, First Graphene says it has found a way to slow the spread of fire in plastics by adding graphene – tiny flakes of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices.
From BBC
The reef cubes have been designed with a chamber in the middle and a honeycomb texture on the outside to encourage marine life to use them.
From BBC
The herbs themselves are stored in what looks like a relic from a university office: a honeycomb of wooden cubbies, each one just big enough to hold about a dozen packets.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
