ant hill

noun

1. a mound of soil, leaves, etc, near the entrance of an ants' nest, carried and deposited there by the ants while constructing the nest

2. a mound of earth, usually about 2 metres high, built up by termites in forming a nest

Example Sentences

Mr. Dedmon and the other deputies punched Mr. Schmidt and held his arm in a fire ant hill, then shocked him repeatedly with a Taser, Mr. Schmidt said.

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One picture book she read to them was “The Ant Hill Disaster,” about a boy ant who is afraid to go back to school after it is destroyed.

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Access had vanished across broad swaths of Morro da Formiga, or Ant Hill, a tough neighborhood on the city's north side.

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For many weeks the children had been collecting firewood, rags, leaves and brushwood, and the result was a huge pile like an enormous ant hill, into which the flames ate fiercely, hissing and crackling and rearing up as they fed on the bits of camphor and oil-soaked rags that people threw in.

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When he went to inspect his ball, he saw that it was sitting near what he called a fire ant hill.

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