Example Sentences

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The sandfly commonly shelters in cracks in poorly plastered mud houses, anthills and soil fissures, multiplying during the rainy season after prolonged drought.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

The rendition is hypnotic but also distancing, making these utopian dreamworlds seem even more artificial than they already were, now ungrounded in space and time, crowds moving en masse through cosmic anthills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

They also look for good collection points such as anthills, the areas near certain types of indigenous trees and decomposing baobab trees, he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

The Misty Mountains were crawling like anthills: orcs were issuing out of a thousand holes.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien