anthill

Example Sentences

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But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024

The position is so vast and covered in trenches, bunkers and tunnels that some parts have been compared to an anthill.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, who likened the rebuilding to a bustling anthill, said residents are eager to close a deeply painful chapter.

From Reuters • Mar. 30, 2023

While wandering the sandy area by the parking lot to pass the time, I accidentally stepped on an anthill and the bugs swarmed my exposed foot.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019

There are two immense words from Indo-European, gene and bbeu, each a virtual anthill in itself, from which we have constructed the notion of Everything.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas