beehive

Example Sentences

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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

The mayor of Aurillac, Pierre Mathonier, was reported as saying that Asian hornets threatening a beehive may have been the catalyst for the attack.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

This batting beehive shows how straight England bowled to Shubman Gill.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

An immense sculptural beehive oven, “Pansa del Publicó,” which he originally built as a public sculpture at L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

The first European adventurers in the Western Hemisphere did not make careful population counts, but they repeatedly described indigenous America as a crowded, jostling place—“a beehive of people,” as Las Casas put it in 1542.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann