How to Use honeycomb in a Sentence

honeycomb

1 of 2 noun
  • One of the honeycombs was empty.
  • The city makes its thousand demands, the city is a honeycomb of needs.
    Campbell McGrath, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Draw a honeycomb pattern on the front, and use a linoleum carving tool to etch out the design.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • For one, the honeycomb pattern makes your peach look, well, peachy.
    Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There was also honeycomb and beeswax in there, Gram said.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
  • Look for honey with a good chunk of honeycomb in in the jar or container.
    Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The fifth game involves a glass stepping-stone bridge and is the first solo game since the honeycomb candy.
    Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Slit film, meanwhile, has sliced strands that form a honeycomb shape.
    Mark Long, Chron, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The tiara's honeycomb pattern went well with the semi-sheer design of her dress.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The bees painstakingly build honeycomb, one tiny wax scale at a time.
    Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Ijaz: The best way to describe cell-to-pack is to think of the way an aircraft wing uses honeycomb as structure.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The windows of the bus had been blown out, and its sides, riddled with bullet holes, gave it the appearance of a honeycomb.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The participants are asked to take on the honeycomb challenge like the children in the ’70s and ’80s who gathered in small groups in the playground to play the game.
    Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Trace a half-bell shape onto a piece of honeycomb paper; cut out.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • It’s finished with Maldon salt, a drizzle of olive oil and bits of raw honeycomb.
    Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
  • Now inside, Gaines holds up a slab of honeycomb and runs a blade through the structure removing any of the excess.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
  • All morels grow about 3 to 6 inches tall, with a brain-like honeycomb cap of pits and ridges that can range in color from creamy white to dark brown, almost black.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This appears to be one of the simpler flavors with vanilla ice cream with honeycomb and swirls of hot honey.
    Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The curve of the head is designed to minimize drag and boost swing speed, while the honeycomb core provides ample power.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 7 Aug. 2023
  • For example, the cells of a real wax honeycomb are not all perfect hexagons.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • This pair does the trick perfectly, with a honeycomb-like perforation across the entire top of the shoe.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The second game is the honeycomb shape cutting challenge.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Enjoy it, Isa says, with the cafe’s honeycomb bread, filled with cheese and drizzled with honey, samosas or pastries.
    Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The menu describes the baked good as a white Sonoran wheat pretzel served with guinea hen butter and Arizona honeycomb.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The honeycomb design, meanwhile, is meant to reflect things seen in nature, such as a beehive, snake scales or even a snowflake.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 May 2022
  • The brand's signature honeycomb-style compression around the arch sets these socks apart in the world of athletic socks.
    Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
  • It's made from lightly distressed ash wood veneer and a striking honeycomb texture on the front of the drawers.
    Samantha Jones, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2023
  • Contestants were given ten minutes to extract the shape from the rest of the honeycomb without breaking any part of the shape itself.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The honeycomb works best on firm pumpkins that will hold their shape despite the intricate carvings.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Each honeycomb is framed with light-gray Woodbury granite from Vermont, and filling each frame is a slab of white, gray-veined marble, one-and-one-quarter-inch thick, quarried in Danby, not far from my home in Vermont.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
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honeycomb

2 of 2 verb
  • The freshwater canals that once honeycombed through the city earned it the name the Venice of the East.
    Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • Zinke has looked around his department and finds that it is honeycombed with traitors.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
  • They were honeycombed, more air than wood, chewed hollow by worms.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • But most of the residents live in brick or concrete block dwellings along alleys and stairways that honeycomb the sides of Two Brothers Mountain.
    Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Lost in the haze are the concrete-block dormitories honeycombed with closet-size rooms that house migrant workers.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Morels are prized because of their unbeatable combination of flavor (full and hearty) and texture (honeycombed and sort of spongy).
    Daniel Neman, sacbee.com, 13 June 2017
  • Both do magical things to crunchy, honeycombed segments of lotus root; scoops of gelatinous shrimp pâté, which firm up like meatballs in the heat; slippery little boiled quail eggs; and gorgeous, shell-on white shrimp.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But if astrobiology has revealed that Earth is honeycombed with life, the opposite seems true of Mars.
    Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The white cabinets have two thin, vertical, honeycombed windows cut into each door, and the appliances — including the gas cooktop with built-in grill — are stainless steel.
    John Ellement, Boston.com Real Estate, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Britain is honeycombed with secretive institutions, particularly public schools and Oxbridge colleges, which have their own private languages.
    The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The freshwater canals that once honeycombed through the city earned it the name the Venice of the East.
    Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • Zinke has looked around his department and finds that it is honeycombed with traitors.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
  • They were honeycombed, more air than wood, chewed hollow by worms.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • But most of the residents live in brick or concrete block dwellings along alleys and stairways that honeycomb the sides of Two Brothers Mountain.
    Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Lost in the haze are the concrete-block dormitories honeycombed with closet-size rooms that house migrant workers.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Morels are prized because of their unbeatable combination of flavor (full and hearty) and texture (honeycombed and sort of spongy).
    Daniel Neman, sacbee.com, 13 June 2017
  • Both do magical things to crunchy, honeycombed segments of lotus root; scoops of gelatinous shrimp pâté, which firm up like meatballs in the heat; slippery little boiled quail eggs; and gorgeous, shell-on white shrimp.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But if astrobiology has revealed that Earth is honeycombed with life, the opposite seems true of Mars.
    Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The white cabinets have two thin, vertical, honeycombed windows cut into each door, and the appliances — including the gas cooktop with built-in grill — are stainless steel.
    John Ellement, Boston.com Real Estate, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Britain is honeycombed with secretive institutions, particularly public schools and Oxbridge colleges, which have their own private languages.
    The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017

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