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Meanings of honeycombed in English
Usage of honeycombed in English
1
The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
2
The snow softened and got honeycombed by the drops from the trees.
3
I understand the mountain is fairly honeycombed with them in parts, Mr.
4
The cliffs opposite the ancient Egyptian capitals are honeycombed with sepulchral cells.
5
The metal was honeycombed with tunnels and cavities engineered for various purposes.
6
But this whole area is honeycombed with these underground dwellings and forts.
7
Quite on the contrary, this country of ours is honeycombed with spies.
8
There were barbed-wire entanglements everywhere, and every field was honeycombed with trenches.
9
Of these, thirty are to replace guns that are honeycombed, or split.
10
I saw caverns, open, widened tunnels, as though this mountain were honeycombed.
11
We found water; the mountain was honeycombed with underground streams; but no food.
12
I was always fascinated by the many secret passageways which honeycombed the house.
13
Well, the place seems to be honeycombed with ways in and ways out.
14
The interior space was honeycombed with holes made by the shells.
15
The biscuit was a honeycombed heap of maggots, and the excrement of maggots.
16
In brief, the whole Russian bureaucracy was honeycombed by German influence.
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Honeycombed across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common