antlike
Britishadjective
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of or like an ant or ants
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characterized by scurrying activity or teeming restlessness
Example Sentences
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In a world of grasshopperish myopia, planting trees has long been a symbol of antlike forethought.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022
Across the empty prairie, driving carefully in and out of the ruts, it approached with antlike slowness.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
The idea fires the imagination, inspiring us again to contemplate the mystery of our own antlike lives, conducted atop a planet spinning through the Great Deep.
From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2018
The premise is that antlike insects from space have infested Washington’s cherry blossoms, whence they crawl into people’s ears and consume half their brains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2016
Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens at the upper Southeast Ridge, I was surprised to see four antlike figures moving almost imperceptibly toward the South Summit.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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