anthill

[US]/'ænthɪl/
[UK]/'ænthɪl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a crowded place;a mound of earth built by ants

Example Sentences

probe a wound to find its extent; probing the anthill with a stick.

The children watched in fascination as the ants scurried around the anthill.

The anthill in the backyard was teeming with activity.

The biologist studied the intricate tunnels within the anthill.

The ants diligently carried food back to their anthill.

The anthill was destroyed when the lawnmower ran over it.

The farmer noticed a large anthill near the edge of the field.

The anthropologist studied the social structure of the ant colony living in the anthill.

The ants worked together to build a new anthill after the old one was destroyed.

The children carefully avoided stepping on the anthill to protect the ants.

The scientist placed a small camera inside the anthill to observe the ants' behavior.

Real-world Examples

It was a human anthill that an invading sea had caught by surprise!

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

A Type 3 civilization might feel about as like we feel about the bacteria living on the anthill.

Source: Kurzgesagt science animation

From the Leyden house down to Five Points, the street seethed with activity, the activity of an anthill just destroyed.

Source: Gone with the Wind

I lowered my elbow to the ground and said, " You go." The ant ran off to his life at the anthill.

Source: Elementary School Version September

His foot knocks against a two-foot anthill, knocks down the dwelling place of the ants, and scatters the ants and their eggs far and wide.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Four)

If you go down to an anthill, you go down to the ants and say, " I bring you trinkets; I bring you bees; take me to your ant queen; I give you nuclear energy."

Source: Big Think Super Thoughts

As an analogy, humans are more intelligent and competent than ants, ? and if we want to build a hydroelectric dam where there happens to be an anthill, there may no malevolence involved, but, well... too bad for the ants.

Source: Minute Physics

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