18 examples of anthill in sentences

With a board the thoughtless child the anthill.

The amazing organisation of an anthill 'emerges' from the bottom up, in a collective demonstration of each ant's evolved instincts.

And so many cities are but as so many hives of bees, anthills; but that which thou abhorrest, many seek: women keep in all winter, and most part of summer, to preserve their beauties; some for love of study: Demosthenes shaved his beard because he would cut off all occasions from going abroad: how many monks and friars, anchorites, abandon the world.

The circumstance of serpents taking up their abode in the large anthills, must be entirely accidental.

"They were off on a tremendous adventure, with anthills for mountains and clover-stems for the tree-trunks of forests in the path.

The ant-eater found fat termites so satisfying that it left all other things and devoted its life to the exploiting of anthills, and now it has no rival at that business, but it is fit for nothing else.

I do not know why we have so few green woodpeckers by the river, as there are plenty of old trees there; but these birds, which feed chiefly on the ground among the anthills, have a marked preference for such woods in the neighbourhood as contain an abundance of oak trees.

The fireplace was a platform of earth, taken from anthills, and heaped and spread on the boards of the boat.

Farther away the partridges stole quietly to an anthill at the edge of some barley.

And he was turned into an anthill covered over with creepers.

She surrounded by her maids, and decked out with jewels fit for the celestials, while walking about, approached the anthill where Bhrigu's son was seated.

I saw a number of little anthills there yesterday.

Some large anthills, and very small palm trees, not six feet in height, were noticed for the first time so far south.

But what, perhaps, most attracted our attention, was the very surprising size of the anthills, or nests.

Doña Trinidad's cooking-girls were as thick in the kitchen as ants on an anthill, for the good things of Casa Grande were as famous as its hospitality, and not the least of the attractions to the merry visitors.

Entrance into this anthill is sometimes by personal favor, sometimes by examination.

As characteristics of this poor soil, the first objects to attract the attention are the enormous pinnacled anthills of red clay and sand, often with supporting buttresses.

In sailing along the coast, these anthills may be distinctly seen from the distance of two or three miles.

18 examples of  anthill  in sentences