Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.
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Examples for "ant "
1 In ten years, a new ant species has infested half of Texas.
2 Several species of ant - thrushes always accompany the army ants in the forest.
3 And everyone who has tried has given up for ant of information.
4 The ant paused a moment to record the instructions in his mind.
5 The main form of communication in an ant colony is by odor.
1 Ireland took the lead when outhalf Emmet Farrell posted an easy penalty.
2 Speaking to Emmet Malone the Dutchman says: this is a unique project.
3 If Emmet and my son are taken and executed, well and good.
4 Robert Emmet seemed to be talking to her grandson pleasantly enough, however.
5 Is there anything you can tell me now, about Emmet in particular?
1 A light dawned upon the intellect of that pismire .
2 The humblest of creatures has its uses-'eventhe little pismire , ' you know, as Isaak Walton tells us.
3 The humblest of creatures has its uses-'eventhe little pismire , ' you know, as Izaak Walton tells us.
4 At first he said he was a pismire , but the Speaker said pismire was not parliamentary, and he modified it to grasshopper.
5 I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens.
6 We are like the pismires destroyed by the plough; whose destruction prevents not the future crop.
7 Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires , I could perform nothing.
8 He abandoned it in disgust, declaring that it had been "nibbled to death by pismires . "
9 We might as well apply the same code to the fierce Malay who runs amuck and to McAllister's fashionable pismires .
10 They didn't come down from thrones in heaven like falling stars; they crawled up from holes in the earth like vicious little pismires .
11 Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires , I could perform nothing against the will of many human pismires .
12 "I might as well move to lay the bill on the table and to write as its epitaph-'nibbledto death by pismires ! ' "
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