How to Use anthill in a Sentence
anthill
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But it’s no typical anthill—the nests are made out of the ants themselves.
—Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
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O’Hara sometimes seems to be chronicling the life of an anthill.
—Jamie James, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
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The island of Stromboli, north of Sicily, is shaped like an anthill and blasts white smoke from its volcano all year.
—Porter Fox, New York Times, 17 May 2016
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The Zen of the Frenzied Ants Imagine a narrow twig spanning two mounds on an anthill to form a bridge 100 inches long.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
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The sign is surrounded by artificial turf, with an anthill-like mound in front of it to prompt the perfect pose.
—Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Oct. 2017
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The Velvet Underground & Nico was ignored at the time, reaching an anthill peak of number 129 on the album chart.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021
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Tanker trucks and semis and auto carriers, thousands of tons of goods moving to market, like a train of ants carrying leaves to their anthill.
—Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
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To some outsiders, however, this island nation may be making a mountain out of an anthill.
—Sean McLain, WSJ, 26 July 2017
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Other primates engage in similar behavior such as poking anthills, knowing full well that the ants will come swarming out.
—Rebekah Kebede, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
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An anthill, which can contain hundreds of millions of workers with high genetic relatedness in compact, clustered living quarters, is the perfect place for disease outbreak.
—Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2018
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