honeycomb
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However, several different processes can produce this kind of honeycomb appearance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Would it be bamboo charcoal memory foam, a C-shaped full body or a honeycomb hole?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, in a vehicle optimized for precisely that purpose, the legs, designed with a crushable honeycomb interior, were supposed to contract.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
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 ● Nov. 6, 2025
Jinny stood, bees buzzing industriously around her head, honeycomb in hand, frozen, and watching.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
The “last grizzly killed” has several claimants: In Orange County, it was in February 1908, when a huge steel trap was laid for a bear that had been stealing honeycombs from hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Those kinks help to guide the honeycombs as they crunch down during an impact, allowing for a much smoother collapse.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
Peaches sprawl across the counter, next to honeycombs I would suck on during long, oppressive summers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
Keepers inside a new biosecurity zone will not be able to move hives, bees or honeycombs until further notice.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2022
When I return to our room, Rubio and Feathers are already in their honeycombs.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
The valley above Hood River is honeycombed with farms that have also become destinations where one can handpick fruit, snack outside on picnic tables and bring the dog.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Instead, he said, the card was probably issued because Putin and his colleagues were granted routine access to Stasi facilities that honeycombed Dresden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Hikers can enter the silence of one of the small, semicircular chambers and imagine a contemplative looking out from the same entrance — toward a wall of beige granite honeycombed with scoop-like craters.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
The resulting porous crystal structure is so fully honeycombed with pockets that a chunk the size of a sugar cube can contain several football fields’ worth of internal surface area.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2021
A morel resembles a tanned finger wearing a dark and deeply honeycombed dunce cap.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
They show no motive in their complicated domes, their honeycombing, and their ingenious conventional forms; but cover equally textile fabrics or stucco ceilings without suggesting any idea, religious or symbolical.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
