hivelike
- a word derived from hive.
Example Sentences
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Because each letter is encased in a hexagon, the visual effect is hivelike.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2020
The National Building Museum’s annual “Summer Block Party” installation has brought a maze, icebergs and hivelike structures to its massive Great Hall in recent years.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2018
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
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
