Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

honeycomb

[huhn-ee-kohm] / ˈhʌn iˌkoʊm /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“Artists come here from all over the world to be part of it, and there’s so much music dripping out of the honeycomb of this town that I’m in it. I’m in it neck-deep.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

To see how these materials were gathered, researchers added trace amounts of graphite to ordinary honeycomb.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

Would it be bamboo charcoal memory foam, a C-shaped full body or a honeycomb hole?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 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

From below it looked like a small white honeycomb.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The “last grizzly killed” has several claimants: In Orange County, it was in February 1908, when a huge steel trap was laid for a bear that had been stealing honeycombs from hives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

She boiled teas and honeycombs, steamed open her pores, adjusted the shutters, and drank.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Instead, he said, the card was probably issued because Putin and his colleagues were granted routine access to Stasi facilities that honeycombed Dresden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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

His idea is to produce classics like a crisp-skinned croissant with a properly honeycombed interior, but also to disrupt the category.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

The leopard-spotted, sturdy crust is honeycombed and foldable.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2021

Passages and corridors honeycombed the walls and wound their way from floor to ceiling, up and down the sides of the cave.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

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 dries better and more easily than heartwood, usually with less shrinkage and little checking or honeycombing.

From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. Record


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com