beehive
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The best weapon in the “Jackass’” arsenal isn’t the taser, the beehive or the booby-trapped latrine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The house has a defective chimney, a historic beehive oven and even a hidden chamber decorated with hieroglyphs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Behind the apostles, in a beehive of sociable activity, wingless angels busy themselves with rituals—tending to oil lamps, burning cypress branches, playing musical instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
This batting beehive shows how straight England bowled to Shubman Gill.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
“When the volunteer firemen found her collapsed by the beehive she was still alive, and she had her dentures in her hand and was tapping out an SOS message in Morse code— ‘Help me!
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
"We had more than 40,000 beehives and more than 450 beekeepers" before the war, he told AFP from the rooftop in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
They filled with blossoms as usual this spring, so Shafer rented about 100 beehives and the bees went to work pollinating.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
They climb giant baobab trees to raid beehives for honey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
But when she arrives at Iona’s apartment, Andie is shocked to see that a coiffed perm, light makeup, a sensible suit and a string of pearls have replaced her friend’s beehives and gelled spikes.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
First she described the claybeds, making sure she got in everything she could remember, the wide ocher-colored washing pits, the dragline, the kilns like great brick beehives.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
