anthill

noun

ant·hill ˈant-ˌhil

: a mound of debris thrown up by ants or termites in digging their nest

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His air force dropped these bombs wantonly, as a boy drops a firecracker down the silo of an anthill. —

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024 Over much of the preceding 2,055 days, the site had been a hive of industry, with teams cleaning marble mosaics, retouching frescoes and clambering over the anthill of scaffolding that filled the center of the landmark. —

Joseph Ataman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024 Former California congresswoman Jackie Speier was just 28 years old in 1978 when she was shot five times by members of the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana and left to die on an anthill. —

Drew Goins, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 Like an anteater licking an anthill clean with its long, thin tongue. —

Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for anthill