anthill

Example Sentences

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As usual, as I stood in the door of the dormitory, it reminded me most of an anthill.

From Literature

Better than being buried in an anthill with a boa constrictor around your neck and lima beans stuffed in your mouth.

From Literature

The sandfly commonly shelters in cracks in poorly plastered mud houses, anthills and soil fissures, multiplying during the rainy season after prolonged drought.

From Barron's

The rendition is hypnotic but also distancing, making these utopian dreamworlds seem even more artificial than they already were, now ungrounded in space and time, crowds moving en masse through cosmic anthills.

From The Wall Street Journal

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