How to Use ant in a Sentence
ant
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The ants had a field day, though.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2025
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Toss foods the ants may have fed on.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
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Toss foods the ants may have fed on.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
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How to get rid of ants in your grass?
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
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And some types of ants will bite or sting.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
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House ants trail scents across the home to alert their colony.
—Eva Flowe june 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
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Is this a grocery store for ants?
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Feb. 2026
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This can remove ants from your home.
—Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2026
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Look for the trail these ants follow.
—Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 13 Mar. 2026
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Pharaoh ants are more common in homes.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
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The ant, curled like a comma in my palm.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
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Neither method will get rid of ants.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
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See lines of ants marching across your floor?
—Charlotte Maracina, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
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In the nests of ants, bees or wasps, the sole monarch is a queen.
—Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
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Is smuggling ants worth the risk?
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 15 May 2026
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Watney would have been forced to live like an ant.
—Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026
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Grab your garden hose and flood the ants out of their nests.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
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These ant baits from Raid use two types of bait to kill ants.
—Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
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The good news is that ants rarely eat tomato fruit or plant parts.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2026
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The stainless steel lid keeps out fruit flies and ants and blocks odors.
—Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023
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They were found with 5,000 ants in test tubes.
—ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
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In terms of the worst pests to spot in your home, ants might sound like no big deal.
—Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 15 Apr. 2026
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Where can the Asian needle ants be found?
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
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Our fave ant-sized hero is back, and this time, he's got a partner.
—Kori Williams, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2023
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But an army of ants can also cause big problems.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
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All the other ants follow the trail to get the food.
—Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
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And controlling the scale may keep the ants away.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
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Neither do wolves or ants for that matter.
—Nathan Rott, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
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Like wasps and bees, ants are social and live in a colony with one or more queens.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
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Like wasps and bees, ants are social and live in a colony with one or more queens.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
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