hornet's nest
Example Sentences
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Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wam-aa, A kind of hornet's-nest, which they eat.
From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by Oxley, John
I backed into a corner and held old King in front of me as a bulwark, warranted bullet proof, and wondered what kind of a hornet's-nest I'd got into.
From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.
No sooner does Ayres open fire on the Enemy, than he awakens a Rebel hornet's-nest.
From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 by Logan, John Alexander
Little by little the Doomsmen began to lose ground; already they had been defeated several times in pitched battle, and it looked as though the hornet's-nest would soon be smoked out.
From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel
