hive
noun
a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
hivelike
-
a word derived from
hive.
Example Sentences
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The piece’s top is covered with hivelike ceramic tiles and balanced above an impossibly tiny midriff on stinger-like legs.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2021
Because each letter is encased in a hexagon, the visual effect is hivelike.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2020
Knott’s sense of himself as isolated and yet part of a hivelike whole found its final embodiment online, where many of his poems can still be read for free.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
He discovered that “it’s especially popular in science fiction and fantasy,” used as early as 1951 in L. Sprague de Camp’s novel “Rogue Queen,” about a band of outlaws in a hivelike society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2016
Mr. Crowley’s set shows the hivelike housing project that surrounds it, suggesting other lives with other stories, inevitably if invisibly contingent on the sole one we have been privy to.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
