beehive
Example Sentences
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Two students built beehives in someone’s backyard, using recycled materials, and they planted all kinds of bee-friendly flowers.
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Hours later, when we returned to Baltimore, the streets were as busy and stirred up as a beehive.
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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.
They also advise that locals keep vehicles free of food, lock doors and windows, and use electric fencing to protect beehives and chicken coops.
From Los Angeles Times
It was like being inside an enormous beehive, with a constant buzz and people scurrying everywhere—costumers, stagehands, musicians, the choreographer and his many assistants.
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