anthill

noun

ant·hill ˈant-ˌhil

: a mound of debris thrown up by ants or termites in digging their nest

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Former California congresswoman Jackie Speier was just 28 years old in 1978 when she was shot five times by members of the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana and left to die on an anthill. —

Drew Goins, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 Like an anteater licking an anthill clean with its long, thin tongue. —

Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024 Still, Moiraine showed up and kicked the anthill nicely, by planting a sword directly in Lanfear's torso and then slitting her throat. —

Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2023 For this latest experiment, Fredensborg chose to focus on four anthills in the Bidstrup Forests near Copenhagen, where both ants and lancet liver flukes are common. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for anthill