Example sentences for: ants

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

  • Each ant has one parent if it is male, because male ants are produced from unfertilized eggs, or two if it is female.

  • Thus we have anteaters and carol singers , although they eat ants and sing carols in the plural.

  • For months after General Electric bought NBC, David Letterman mocked his new bosses as "GE pinheads," and all the little ants who wrote for Dave felt sassy and bold.

  • Walcott twins Clare--who was driven mad by social injustice and consoled by the smallest beings in nature--with mad Tom, Edgar's disguise in King Lear , who, like Clare, wanders the English countryside praising frogs and gnats: "I am moved like you, mad Tom, by a line of ants;/ I behold their industry and they are giants."

  • The bones of the wrist (Navicular, Lunate, Trique-trum, Pisiform, greater Multangular, lesser Multangular, Capitate, Hamate) were brought to mind by “ N ever L ower T illie's P ants, M amma M ight C ome H ome.”


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast