beehive

Example Sentences

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Behind the apostles, in a beehive of sociable activity, wingless angels busy themselves with rituals—tending to oil lamps, burning cypress branches, playing musical instruments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The mayor of Aurillac, Pierre Mathonier, was reported as saying that Asian hornets threatening a beehive may have been the catalyst for the attack.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

This batting beehive shows how straight England bowled to Shubman Gill.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

With its upstairs-downstairs dynamic — the “us” and “them” of it is explicitly laid out — large cast and grand beehive setting, it suggests a wackier contemporary American “Gosford Park.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

While Martin Clougherty had been catching up on his sleep, the train yard that stood between Clougherty’s house and the molasses tank had, as usual, been a beehive of activity.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler