anthill

Example Sentences

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But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024

“But if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green-energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants.”

From Slate • May 9, 2023

Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, who likened the rebuilding to a bustling anthill, said residents are eager to close a deeply painful chapter.

From Reuters • Mar. 30, 2023

A recent profile in a French news site described Mr. Onishi and others as “kicking the anthill just by naming things” that had previously gone unspoken.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2020

They looked, Mrs. Frisby thought, like very large ants endlessly toiling on an anthill.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien