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"Hive" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Bees communicate the location of food by carrying odor samples back to the hive.
Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
How many bees live in a hive?
We lived in a cramped, dim house which was as small as a hive.
The bees are zooming out of the hive.
The murder scene was still a hive of police activity several days after the man's body had been discovered.
A hive of bees can pollinate up to three million flowers in a single day.
There can be only one queen in the hive.
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First, for thy Bees a quiet Station find, / And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind: / For Winds, when homeward they return, will drive / The loaded Carriers from their Ev'ning Hive.
When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?
There the horde of Roman robbers mock at a barbarous adversary. / There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.
Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]
For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
to hive a swarm of bees
Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]
1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities
[…] if you are allergic to it, the skin produces a localized red, itchy reaction, a hive. The hive appears within minutes of the allergy skin test and lasts up to approximately 24 hours.
Most people will develop a small, itchy hive at the site of the sting that will subside in 30 to 60 minutes (sting may be accompanied by burning pain). Each ant inflicts seven to eight stings. Within 4 hours, a small blister will develop at the site.
Itchy, hive-like bumps turn into solid knotlike eruptions, which can last from a few days to several months.
[She had an] itchy hive reaction on her chest—it always seemed to happen when she talked to her mother.
[...] a bite or a hive, he wasn't sure which, but it was bloody itchy. It was probably a hive. He was very stressed.
A hard, burning button erupted on my forehead, an itchy hive. I wanted to scratch it, but refrained. It seemed to be traveling slowly from one side of my face to the other. I was sweating profusely.
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