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Definition of beehive:

  • (noun) any workplace where people are very busy
  • (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
  • (noun) a hairdo resembling a beehive
  • (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees

Sentence Examples:

Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob beehives.

Next beehives appeared and were elevated on stands and duly protected from the rain.

This never could have been a beehive.

The tent was a buzzing beehive of flies.

The snow house is of the beehive shape and the ground plan is that of a circle.

He tells him a beehive is similar to a kingdom.

The place buzzed like a beehive and ticked like a clockmaker's.

Her theory is that of the beehive: drones for mates, workers for work.

We can't fight these men, or we shall have the whole place out on us like a beehive.

Florence, in the middle of the fourteenth century, was a vast beehive of industry.

Court days doubled the population; an election made a beehive of the place.

Soon there were rows of beehives on the top of the wall over the gate.

In an instant Fritz thought of the beehives.

White's place was full as a beehive.

The whole place hummed like a beehive on a July morning.

Into her own cell of that beehive, however, she took poor, sad, desolate Nora.

Round the edge are beehive-shaped mounds; these represent the hills of earth.

From the beehives came the peculiar and exquisite odor of virgin wax.

"Your brain is about as busy as a beehive on a bright summer day."

A wide shelf ran from the beehive almost to the open door.

The carpenter's house was as busy as a beehive.

By Monday the place was as busy as a beehive.

He sat down close to her in another beehive chair.

In fact, every brain is like a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a beehive.

The form of the huts is like that of beehives.

Her beehives were her greatest care.

A hut was assigned to him, a sort of beehive of grass and mud, with a hole to enter by.

If planted in the neighborhood of beehives, the Nettle will serve to drive away frogs.

It looks for all the world like an exhibition of patent beehives at a country fair.

The houses were round, beehive fashion, and the streets totally empty.

As for industry, Deutschland was a colossal beehive.

And how much honey of hope did I carry hence into my beehives!

The first things to attract Blanche's attention were three pretty straw beehives.

It is like the buzzing round a beehive.

"Would not beehives answer very well here?"

While the cake was being got ready, Clare went out to look at the beehives with Deb.

For days before the ceremony the homes of Greenwald are beehives of industry.

A short half hour had transformed the quiet spot to a beehive of noise and bustle.

Hilda threw away the greater part of a cigarette and sat up in her beehive.

Hilda struggled out of her beehive and immediately stumbled into a bed of stocks.

The Messenger was looking hard at the beehives.

Here is the beehive.

That's the fullest beehive for its size, isn't it?

There was a hum as from a gigantic beehive.

My father gave him some of these beehives and taught him how to make new ones.

It appeared to be a colony of metal beehives, with covered passages between.

Immediately the whole land was as a disturbed beehive.

Another beehive, finished, with a straw handle, lay at his side.

Was there a good sale for beehives round there?

It was an enormous beehive, but the industry of it was suspended.

In the distance, the mill droned like a big beehive.

I always thought honey came from a beehive.

It was cone-shaped and covered with straw like a huge beehive.

The little hut, made of branches woven closely together, was shaped like a beehive.

I imagine that every young woman in this vast beehive of homes has just such a bedroom.

In that beehive of a place she had been utterly alone with horror in her soul.

I put on my beehive, and we both went right down town.

The whole place was a perfect beehive though there was little confusion.

They went inside the factory, where the rush of activity was like a beehive.

They raised vegetables and had a couple of beehives for the honey.

It was about the size of a beehive, and was shaped like one.

Beyond them, Rick saw brown houses that looked like beehives.

The air traffic was heavy, and the field was a beehive of activity.

He stood before the beehives, and watched their restless labor.

It was about twenty feet in diameter, about seven feet high, and in shape like a beehive.

By the time he did so the place was like a beehive.

What is the difference between a beehive and a diseased potato?

Honey from my beehives, to be sure.

There was every conceivable thing in the place, from a beehive to a baby's rattle.

The place was busy as a beehive.

He knew it was going to be a beehive of activity inside the tech areas now.

He meanwhile looked after his beehives, and was busy now, for the bees were swarming.

A beehive is a city of bees built by the entire community for its common use.

"Let's stop here," cried Martine, "for a moment; I never saw so many beehives."

After a turn or two they came to the place that Martine called "the beehive farm."

They aren't especially handsome either inside or out, but they are as busy as beehives.

Hard by is a row of beehives.

He forgot his flocks, his herds, his gardens, even his beehives for Eurydice.

Jerking her thumb towards the senseless clay in the beehive chair.

There was as much bustle in camp as in a beehive on the eve of swarming.

In the beehive dwellings the beds circled the fire.

The camp was swarming like a great beehive.

The great beehive of a college was about to begin a new and strenuous day.

There were nearly two hundred of them, looking is the distance like clusters of beehives.

What is good for the beehive is good for the bee.

They live in houses which resemble beehives, into which you must creep.

Rows of typical Southern beehives are shown in the two succeeding illustrations.

And over there where the Crab crawls, is the little Beehive between the Roses.

Much against my will I turned my back on her, and led her off to the beehives.

In fact, I summoned the night porter and asked him to stop the beehive next door.

About fifteen feet from the place where he was seated there was a row of beehives.

An old shepherd had been arrested for stealing beehives.

You have turned a desert into a beehive.

At meal times the place was like a beehive.

A row of beehives was ranged across one side of it.

People of other tribes have told me that their houses are like beehives.

"Who has brought this beehive here and stuck it on my table?"

Did you ever see a beehive of this color?

It seems probable that these were rude beehives.

When the house was finished, it looked like a great beehive.