anthill

Example Sentences

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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

All this has had the uncomfortable effect of "shaking a stick inside an anthill", it suggests.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2018

Ikwa and Songololo joined me and Otto, and we four sat on a log and stared at a nearby anthill.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer