How to Use ant in a Sentence

ant

noun

• In the nests of ants, bees or wasps, the sole monarch is a queen.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The fungi forces the ant to crawl to the underside of a leaf to die.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• An ant couldn’t fit through the space between the bottom of the ball and the goal line.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Aug. 2023
• These ant baits from Raid use two types of bait to kill ants.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
• The stainless steel lid keeps out fruit flies and ants and blocks odors.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
• But the rove beetles are much, much more diverse than the ants.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• Under the tires of the trailer, two columns of ants go to war.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• The ants get loose, get in people’s pants and cause a lot of crazy dancing.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• On the plane from Venice to New York, when a large, fat ant walks over my pillow.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
• Our fave ant-sized hero is back, and this time, he's got a partner.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2023
• Then, in 2024, the grasshopper ran into the ant at a wedding.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• To pull one ant away and say, That ant decided to do that!
  — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• And as the balloon gets bigger, the ants get farther apart.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• To most, stings from the Asian needle ant will not be harmful, just painful.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2022
• The ants are after their sugary nectar and do not cause any harm to the plant.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2024
• The ants feed the leaves to a species of fungus that doubles as their home; in turn, the ants feed the fungus to their own young.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• If this is right, then the ant ends its life as a prisoner in its own body.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 19 Jan. 2023
• Typical ant baits will kill the worker ants and leave the queen to pump out more.
  — Lucy Warren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• Seats in the upper concourse won’t get as good views, of course, with Swift looking the size of a tall ant.
  — Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2022
• Glue little ants to your napkin rings to be freaky but not too freaky.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 Aug. 2023
• Like, the spiders can live here and the ants can live here and the ladybugs upstairs could live there.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• In the streets were thousands of people, running around like ants.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Aphids, ants, and spiders join the party from the ground, and birds come in for the occasional snack.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• An ant has to go and find food or building materials and bring it back to the nest.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 June 2022
• Essentially, the fungus infects the ant, and grows more of its cells around the brain.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• Vacuum the ant trails and clean with warm, soapy water.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, the smallest is the leaf cutter ant, each of which weighs just 5 milligrams.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Nemo adopts a Flip-ant attitude about flouting the law.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• High up on a remote mountain in Australia, a string of ants with mohawk-like hair went about their day.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• Much like other insects, keeping tidy is a matter of survival for ants.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024