How to Use hive in a Sentence

hive

noun

• The house was a hive of activity as we prepared for the party.
• The job is finished when the hive is burned the next day.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• The day has come for the Queen and her hive to come together.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Other bees fan the water with their wings to cool the hive.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• If an elephant tries to push through the fence and disturb the hive, the bees attack.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• In this way, a healthy-seeming hive can collapse over the course of just a few weeks.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• The study discussed how stress can play a role in chronic hives.
  — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health, 29 June 2023
• Walt Moody, the farm’s apiarist, said a hive was lost this winter.
  — courant.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• Wasps and hornets, which like to eat the giant bees, can head straight to the hive and attack.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• Then everything one copy learns, the whole hive learns.
  — Andréa Morris, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• This hive is situated between the ceiling of the kitchen and the floor of the bedroom above it.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• There has been a slow decline in honey yield per hive since around 2000 (see graph above).
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• These range from dizziness and diarrhea to headaches and hives.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• The Ritters let their customers know that not every hive thrives.
  — Kimberly Winter Stern, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Woods then allegedly broke the cover of a hive, causing hundreds of bees to swarm the area.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• Our group got to hold the frames of the hives and bees in our gloved hands, followed by raw honeycomb tasting.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Tap into the hive for knowledge of good running routes and trail etiquette.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022
• Crates were loaded onto the truck, which Jameson kept there so rogue bees could find their hives.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• But on Court No. 4, right in the middle of the pickleball hive, there was a man by himself who seemed to be in some distress.
  — Allie Conti, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• My fave part about being in the hive is the community within.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• Stone stationed himself close to the White House at the five-star Willard, which at the time was a hive of pro-Trump activity.
  — Dalton Bennett and Jon Swaine, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
• The Village is a busy hive of neighbor-helping-neighbor.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 16 Nov. 2022
• The hive was located under the house nextto Chris' mother-in-law's house.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The bites don't usually hurt, but can look like hives, or in some cases, cause severe swelling.
  — Women's Health, 1 May 2023
• The queen is also typically the mother of all or mostly all of the honeybees in the hive.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2023
• When a scout comes looking for their hive, bees surround the hornet and begin buzzing and flapping their wings.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
• Poppy shows up with fresh hives, but refuses to procure an epipen because of the expense (ostensibly).
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
• One of them, though, is a hive of activity.
  — Jack Ryan, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
• When trained on a star cluster, binoculars help reveal the true majesty of these sparkling stellar hives, bringing many dimmer stars into view.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Be right back, just nipping to the hospital to ask about these hives.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026