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There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.

From Time Magazine Archive

They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

But Kant, Goethe, Karl von Baer and August de Sainte-Hilaire were now planting their outposts throughout the civilized world, honeycombing Christendom with doubt.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert