How to Use beehive in a Sentence

beehive

noun
  • The office was a beehive of activity.
  • The models all sport a replica of the bouffant beehive with a straight parting that Aksu’s mother rocked during the cultural decade.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This scrutiny was heightened when pictures began to emerge of Abela filming around Soho with the famous Winehouse ‘beehive’.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Studies have found that attractants such as orchards, beehives, and cattle and sheep calving areas are associated with encounters between humans and grizzlies.
    Benjamin Cassidy, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Where did the idea of the beehive in the garden come from?
    Discover Magazine, 6 July 2018
  • In the movie, Berry sports gold teeth and a beehive of bleached-blond hair.
    Garin Pirnia, VanityFair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
  • The back of the garden, Jukes knows, would be a good place for a beehive.
    Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The brain is a bit like a beehive, where a neuron is the queen, Macaulay says.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
  • There is a three-year plan for adding services to the space, as well as beehives to the roof.
    Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 24 June 2019
  • And this brings us to all the lenses making the back of phones look like beehives.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The texture of beehive and the look of a sunny rose garden.
    Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The texture of beehive and the look of a sunny rose garden.
    Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 27 Apr. 2017
  • There’s a woman, Francesca, who keeps beehives outside the gates of our house, in the woods.
    Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • To put the bees to the test, Ravi and his team connected a tunnel to a beehive in their lab.
    Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2020
  • There's a bronze beehive, a long, caramel weave, and classic '50s waves.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The view stretched on and on and a drone hovered below us, loud as a dozen beehives.
    Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018
  • These were hats made out of veiling which went on top of your beehive.
    Laura Jacobs, Vanities, 9 May 2018
  • Gone are the spears, the twin American flags, the bald eagle clutching a white crest, the beehive, the sego lilies.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Jalbert said the rooftop beehives that Owen threw were used to make honey and soap.
    Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 23 May 2017
  • But not on Dakota, who leaned into the vibe with long, wavy hair and a slight beehive.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2021
  • For Gigi's beehive, Naté said to tease the crown area up to five or six inches tall.
    Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
  • All the honey in Cleveland Craft Nook is from area beehives.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • The area was a beehive of activity on a round-the-clock schedule.
    Jerome Hansen, Jack Schermerhorn, Ralph Nelson and Ken McCormick, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The past week the school was a beehive of activity in the leadup to Friday's game.
    Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 30 Apr. 2017
  • In the clip, one of the couple’s sons poured water over a gold beehive, which then bubbled over with pink foam.
    Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Or teasing up one’s hair into odd styles (like the beehive)?
    Jim Rutter, Philly.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • There, honey hunters follow birds to beehives that hang from the branches of tallest trees.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The beehive is embedded in a hexagon, called a symbol of strength and unity.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Chicago City Hall's roof is home for beehives, which help pollinate the green roof plants.
    Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Oh, and then here comes Sister in a Marge Simpson blonde beehive, a tiger-print dress, and, yup, a bone mask on her face.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021

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