honeycomb
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However, several different processes can produce this kind of honeycomb appearance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
That many are offered with highly Instagrammable toppings like fresh honeycomb has only added to their allure at a time when high inflation has led consumers to seek small indulgences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, in a vehicle optimized for precisely that purpose, the legs, designed with a crushable honeycomb interior, were supposed to contract.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Even when cooked or sautéed for slightly longer periods of time, morels will hold their shape and maintain their honeycomb structure.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
The piece of tripe that comes from the butt has a beautiful honeycomb pattern.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
For instance, hexagons appear frequently in nature -- think honeycombs and insect eyes -- because they are stable and require the least amount of material to cover a surface.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
The video shows the plane gliding gently over the honeycombs of buildings dotting brown-green fields, before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
Peaches sprawl across the counter, next to honeycombs I would suck on during long, oppressive summers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
On this night there are handmade tablecloths by the artist Piero Golia next to jars of herbal anti-inflammatory salve created by Doctor Max, held together with beeswax made from the honeycombs on the grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
In the greengrocery market, the stalls were overhung with date branches, cinnamon stalks, strings of dried orange peels, gunny-bags of pistachios, fresh pears, pomegranates, and boxes of honeycombs.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
That sense of exigency is honeycombed with grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
The valley above Hood River is honeycombed with farms that have also become destinations where one can handpick fruit, snack outside on picnic tables and bring the dog.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
The resulting porous crystal structure is so fully honeycombed with pockets that a chunk the size of a sugar cube can contain several football fields’ worth of internal surface area.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2021
There is no question that building on tidal wetlands and permeable limestone honeycombed by seawater is problematic.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
Already the edges of the ice where the waves struck were honeycombed and streaked with yellow.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
It didn't exert itself over its local government, it didn't see the Weedon Moores were honeycombing the soil with sedition.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
