Example sentences for: anthills

How can you use “anthills” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "To the inexpert," he writes in one place, "footnotes look like deep root systems, solid and fixed; to the connoisseur, however, they reveal themselves as anthills, swarming with constructive and combative activity."

  • [Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah]

  • For all the narcissism of those who are busy ringing around the anthills of Los Angeles and New York in order to be "winners" in those loony hierarchies, the new boomtowns in the United States are in places recently regarded as pastureland: places like Douglas, Colo., and Fayette, Georgia, and yes, even Camden, Maine.


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