HIVE in a Sentence
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38 example sentences for HIVE, such as:
1. A hive can't exist without a queen.
2. A hive cannot exist without a queen.
3. The construction site was a hive of activity.
4. In the morning the house was a hive of activity.
5. Everyone would be hived off to set up his own family.
2. A hive cannot exist without a queen.
3. The construction site was a hive of activity.
4. In the morning the house was a hive of activity.
5. Everyone would be hived off to set up his own family.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HIVE
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hive
n. a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
n. a teeming multitude
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes.
2 It was empty in the sense that a dying queenless hive is empty.
3 In a queenless hive no life is left though to a superficial glance it seems as much alive as other hives.
4 But one has only to observe that hive to realize that there is no longer any life in it.
5 There are no longer sentinels sounding the alarm with their abdomens raised, and ready to die in defense of the hive.
6 In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily.
7 Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden.
8 The beekeeper opens the lower part of the hive and peers in.
9 The beekeeper opens the upper part of the hive and examines the super.
10 Drones, bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies knock awkwardly against the walls of the hive in their flight.
11 The beekeeper closes the hive, chalks a mark on it, and when he has time tears out its contents and burns it clean.
12 A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey.
13 The hive of joy was opened, and each one brought her honey.
14 Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances.
15 This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Example Sentence:
1 In the morning the house was a hive of activity.
2 The construction site was a hive of activity.
3 A hive cannot exist without a queen.
4 A hive can't exist without a queen.
5 When a hive is threatened, bees release a pheromone-like substance which is called an alarm odor.
6 In May or June bees generally swarm, that is, the bees having become too numerous for the hive, a portion of them go forth to seek a new abode.
7 Everyone would be hived off to set up his own family.
8 The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.