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
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
Decline of individuality: Though some celebrate the ability of algorithms to connect us to one another and inspire collective action, others worry that they’re promoting hivelike ways of living.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 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
To see a map of his company’s projects is to envision the planet as a porous thing—a cosmic loofah—inhabited by an increasingly hivelike humanity.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2008
