How to Use honeycomb in a Sentence

honeycomb

1 of 2 noun

• One of the honeycombs was empty.
• The city makes its thousand demands, the city is a honeycomb of needs.
  — Campbell McGrath, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• Draw a honeycomb pattern on the front, and use a linoleum carving tool to etch out the design.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• For one, the honeycomb pattern makes your peach look, well, peachy.
  — Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• There was also honeycomb and beeswax in there, Gram said.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• Look for honey with a good chunk of honeycomb in in the jar or container.
  — Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• The fifth game involves a glass stepping-stone bridge and is the first solo game since the honeycomb candy.
  — Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
• Slit film, meanwhile, has sliced strands that form a honeycomb shape.
  — Mark Long, Chron, 17 Nov. 2022
• The tiara's honeycomb pattern went well with the semi-sheer design of her dress.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2022
• The bees painstakingly build honeycomb, one tiny wax scale at a time.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Ijaz: The best way to describe cell-to-pack is to think of the way an aircraft wing uses honeycomb as structure.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2024
• The windows of the bus had been blown out, and its sides, riddled with bullet holes, gave it the appearance of a honeycomb.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• The participants are asked to take on the honeycomb challenge like the children in the ’70s and ’80s who gathered in small groups in the playground to play the game.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
• Trace a half-bell shape onto a piece of honeycomb paper; cut out.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
• It’s finished with Maldon salt, a drizzle of olive oil and bits of raw honeycomb.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
• Now inside, Gaines holds up a slab of honeycomb and runs a blade through the structure removing any of the excess.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• All morels grow about 3 to 6 inches tall, with a brain-like honeycomb cap of pits and ridges that can range in color from creamy white to dark brown, almost black.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• This appears to be one of the simpler flavors with vanilla ice cream with honeycomb and swirls of hot honey.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
• The curve of the head is designed to minimize drag and boost swing speed, while the honeycomb core provides ample power.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 7 Aug. 2023
• For example, the cells of a real wax honeycomb are not all perfect hexagons.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• This pair does the trick perfectly, with a honeycomb-like perforation across the entire top of the shoe.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2023
• The second game is the honeycomb shape cutting challenge.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• Enjoy it, Isa says, with the cafe’s honeycomb bread, filled with cheese and drizzled with honey, samosas or pastries.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• The menu describes the baked good as a white Sonoran wheat pretzel served with guinea hen butter and Arizona honeycomb.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• The honeycomb design, meanwhile, is meant to reflect things seen in nature, such as a beehive, snake scales or even a snowflake.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 May 2022
• The brand's signature honeycomb-style compression around the arch sets these socks apart in the world of athletic socks.
  — Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
• It's made from lightly distressed ash wood veneer and a striking honeycomb texture on the front of the drawers.
  — Samantha Jones, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2023
• Contestants were given ten minutes to extract the shape from the rest of the honeycomb without breaking any part of the shape itself.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The honeycomb works best on firm pumpkins that will hold their shape despite the intricate carvings.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
• Each honeycomb is framed with light-gray Woodbury granite from Vermont, and filling each frame is a slab of white, gray-veined marble, one-and-one-quarter-inch thick, quarried in Danby, not far from my home in Vermont.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024

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honeycomb

2 of 2 verb

• The freshwater canals that once honeycombed through the city earned it the name the Venice of the East.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
• Zinke has looked around his department and finds that it is honeycombed with traitors.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
• They were honeycombed, more air than wood, chewed hollow by worms.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• But most of the residents live in brick or concrete block dwellings along alleys and stairways that honeycomb the sides of Two Brothers Mountain.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
• Lost in the haze are the concrete-block dormitories honeycombed with closet-size rooms that house migrant workers.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
• Morels are prized because of their unbeatable combination of flavor (full and hearty) and texture (honeycombed and sort of spongy).
  — Daniel Neman, sacbee.com, 13 June 2017
• Both do magical things to crunchy, honeycombed segments of lotus root; scoops of gelatinous shrimp pâté, which firm up like meatballs in the heat; slippery little boiled quail eggs; and gorgeous, shell-on white shrimp.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• But if astrobiology has revealed that Earth is honeycombed with life, the opposite seems true of Mars.
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• The white cabinets have two thin, vertical, honeycombed windows cut into each door, and the appliances — including the gas cooktop with built-in grill — are stainless steel.
  — John Ellement, Boston.com Real Estate, 22 Jan. 2020
• Britain is honeycombed with secretive institutions, particularly public schools and Oxbridge colleges, which have their own private languages.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• The freshwater canals that once honeycombed through the city earned it the name the Venice of the East.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
• Zinke has looked around his department and finds that it is honeycombed with traitors.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
• They were honeycombed, more air than wood, chewed hollow by worms.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• But most of the residents live in brick or concrete block dwellings along alleys and stairways that honeycomb the sides of Two Brothers Mountain.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
• Lost in the haze are the concrete-block dormitories honeycombed with closet-size rooms that house migrant workers.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
• Morels are prized because of their unbeatable combination of flavor (full and hearty) and texture (honeycombed and sort of spongy).
  — Daniel Neman, sacbee.com, 13 June 2017
• Both do magical things to crunchy, honeycombed segments of lotus root; scoops of gelatinous shrimp pâté, which firm up like meatballs in the heat; slippery little boiled quail eggs; and gorgeous, shell-on white shrimp.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• But if astrobiology has revealed that Earth is honeycombed with life, the opposite seems true of Mars.
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• The white cabinets have two thin, vertical, honeycombed windows cut into each door, and the appliances — including the gas cooktop with built-in grill — are stainless steel.
  — John Ellement, Boston.com Real Estate, 22 Jan. 2020
• Britain is honeycombed with secretive institutions, particularly public schools and Oxbridge colleges, which have their own private languages.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017

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