How to Use anthill in a Sentence

anthill

noun

• O’Hara sometimes seems to be chronicling the life of an anthill.
  — Jamie James, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
• Harry and Eleanor walked perhaps 150 yards and climbed an anthill.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
• In one trippy scene, Scott gets trapped in a literal anthill of other Scotts.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• The sign is surrounded by artificial turf, with an anthill-like mound in front of it to prompt the perfect pose.
  — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Oct. 2017
• The position is so vast and covered in trenches, bunkers and tunnels that some parts have been compared to an anthill.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• To some outsiders, however, this island nation may be making a mountain out of an anthill.
  — Sean McLain, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• The island of Stromboli, north of Sicily, is shaped like an anthill and blasts white smoke from its volcano all year.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 17 May 2016
• Tanker trucks and semis and auto carriers, thousands of tons of goods moving to market, like a train of ants carrying leaves to their anthill.
  — Author: Garrison Keillor, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• Other primates engage in similar behavior such as poking anthills, knowing full well that the ants will come swarming out.
  — Rebekah Kebede, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
• Active anthill, choreographed by collision warning systems,music arranged by sonics of bumps and scrapes.
  — Leslie Simon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
• In hindsight, his anthill vision shows anonymous people participating in their own destruction.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Zen of the Frenzied Ants Imagine a narrow twig spanning two mounds on an anthill to form a bridge 100 inches long.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
• The Velvet Underground & Nico was ignored at the time, reaching an anthill peak of number 129 on the album chart.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021
• An anthill, which can contain hundreds of millions of workers with high genetic relatedness in compact, clustered living quarters, is the perfect place for disease outbreak.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2018
• For this latest experiment, Fredensborg chose to focus on four anthills in the Bidstrup Forests near Copenhagen, where both ants and lancet liver flukes are common.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2023
• There was SimAnt in 1991, which involves tunneling out the chambers of an anthill, forging insect alliances and attacking enemies.
  — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026