beehive

Example Sentences

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Which begs the question: When Pierson chose her first beehive wig in 1976, did she realise it would become her signature look for the next five decades?

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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

With its upstairs-downstairs dynamic — the “us” and “them” of it is explicitly laid out — large cast and grand beehive setting, it suggests a wackier contemporary American “Gosford Park.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

She once got detention for failing to show up with lunch money, and her appearance – “butch” attire, with her hair dyed purple and piled into a beehive – made her a target for bullies.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2024

My hands tremble as I struggle to tuck the decades’ worth of filtration straws under the mattress in my beehive cell.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera