[
UK
/ˈænthɪl/
]
[ US /ˈæntˌhɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈæntˌhɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest
How To Use anthill In A Sentence
- The anthill is well built that even the heaviest storm will not destroy it.
- And a seemingly never-ending procession of leafcutter ants tack diagonally across the next spot in the trail on a pheromone-driven mission to and from their monolithic anthills.
- Her forehead was swelling like an anthill, with beads of blood flowing out of it instead of insects. Chocolate & Vicodin
- The rock face rose impressively above her, piercing the landscape like a skyscraper over an anthill.
- Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.
- Driving for three hours was like knocking over an anthill and daring a hundred little creatures to gnaw on my nerve endings. Chocolate & Vicodin
- Pursuits we made vows to, sitting on anthill under shade of iroko, that sunny day that first day of meeting, that first day in the house of learning. TRIBUTE TO TONY
- Anthills of the Savannah thereby thematizes it own immanent limitation as representation of reality and capsule of ideas.
- They scurried around like ants when you pour water down an anthill, with no awareness of the world around them, as if the earth began and ended with high school.
- IT'S early Wednesday morning and the activity at the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market, known as Africa's biggest, can only be compared to the frantic commotion of an anthill just before the rain.