hives

Example Sentences

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I jumped up and I had hives and bumps from the bites.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Working with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Queen Mary University of London, Nieh and his team studied bees in controlled hives designed to mimic natural conditions.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

What optimism there is lies only in the title, an ancient Greek word for the science of transforming dead cows into hives, of turning death into life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

The next morning Deborah’s hives had gone down some, but her eyes were still swollen, so she decided she needed to go home to see her doctor.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot