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Meanings of beehive in English
Synonyms
Examples for "skep"
Examples for "skep"
1
He was sitting in the chair outside the front door, mending a skep.
2
An apiary of a single skep in a roped-off enclosure was an illustration of unfamiliarity with bees.
3
Add eke after eke to the skep, and still seems it too small to contain all the insects.
4
Mr. Clare readily consented to spare his housekeeper, but the housekeeper was untoward, she was "busied in her housewife skep," and would not stir.
5
He kept his back to me, pretending to examine the Skep.
Usage of beehive in English
1
Soon there was a buzzing in Lower Egypt as in a beehive.
2
Raif barely heard the sound of the second beehive being wheeled away.
3
We have met with incidences of theft of beehive boxes, Jayson said.
4
He sees that a railway station is as natural as a beehive.
5
That was strange, since it had been such a beehive that morning.
6
The activity of a small beehive is already buzzing on the tarmac.
7
The villages were composed of several beehive shapes painted in contrasting colors.
8
The other riders took off in a beehive of noise and activity.
9
How much authenticity is there in the social organization of the beehive?
10
There was a beehive in one, a wasps' nest in the other.
11
Is that a beehive over there? he added, pointing across the lake.
12
Sometimes three, sometimes five, ten, or twenty beehive-shaped huts formed a village.
13
Sitting in an armchair, she's tiny, all beehive hair and lippy pout.
14
To Rand it was like being inside a giant beehive, constantly buzzing.
15
When she recognized the girl's beehive of black hair, she exhaled sharply.
16
The raging and roaring in the beehive could be heard in the distance.
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Beehive through the time
Beehive across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common