How to Use hive in a Sentence

hive

noun
Definition of hivenext
Synonyms for hivenext
  • The house was a hive of activity as we prepared for the party.
  • The job is finished when the hive is burned the next day.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • The day has come for the Queen and her hive to come together.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Other bees fan the water with their wings to cool the hive.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • If an elephant tries to push through the fence and disturb the hive, the bees attack.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In this way, a healthy-seeming hive can collapse over the course of just a few weeks.
    — Time, 3 July 2023
  • The study discussed how stress can play a role in chronic hives.
    — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health, 29 June 2023
  • Walt Moody, the farm’s apiarist, said a hive was lost this winter.
    — courant.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Wasps and hornets, which like to eat the giant bees, can head straight to the hive and attack.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Then everything one copy learns, the whole hive learns.
    — Andréa Morris, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • This hive is situated between the ceiling of the kitchen and the floor of the bedroom above it.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • There has been a slow decline in honey yield per hive since around 2000 (see graph above).
    — Steven Savage, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • These range from dizziness and diarrhea to headaches and hives.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • The Ritters let their customers know that not every hive thrives.
    — Kimberly Winter Stern, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Woods then allegedly broke the cover of a hive, causing hundreds of bees to swarm the area.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Our group got to hold the frames of the hives and bees in our gloved hands, followed by raw honeycomb tasting.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Tap into the hive for knowledge of good running routes and trail etiquette.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • Crates were loaded onto the truck, which Jameson kept there so rogue bees could find their hives.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But on Court No. 4, right in the middle of the pickleball hive, there was a man by himself who seemed to be in some distress.
    — Allie Conti, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • My fave part about being in the hive is the community within.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Stone stationed himself close to the White House at the five-star Willard, which at the time was a hive of pro-Trump activity.
    — Dalton Bennett and Jon Swaine, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The Village is a busy hive of neighbor-helping-neighbor.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The hive was located under the house nextto Chris' mother-in-law's house.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The bites don't usually hurt, but can look like hives, or in some cases, cause severe swelling.
    — Women's Health, 1 May 2023
  • The queen is also typically the mother of all or mostly all of the honeybees in the hive.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2023
  • When a scout comes looking for their hive, bees surround the hornet and begin buzzing and flapping their wings.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • Hulsing and his artists emphasized the size and the constant movement of the hive, in order to represent the vast size of the human mind.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • Just Friday morning, a huge hive of bees swarmed on one of the park’s 150 or so trees and required careful removal.
    — Dallas News, 3 May 2022
  • There was a log hive on stilts, and woven skeps, basketlike hives that were popular among the Vikings.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The balls had been placed in a tunnel that connected the hive to the experimental arena where the food was.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023

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