Example sentences for: hive

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

  • This pattern is repeated multiple times, and is eagerly attended by unemployed bees in the hive.

  • In the 1940s, Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch deciphered the code hidden in this seemingly senseless choreography performed on vertical honeycombs in the darkness of the hive (reviewed in von Frisch 1967).

  • However, doubts emerged when it was found that distance estimation by bees could be manipulated by altering the number of landmarks between the hive and a food source, suggesting bees were counting landmarks encountered en route (Chittka and Geiger 1995).

  • All the while, observers at the hive deciphered the dances of the bees returning from the feeder.

  • Subsequently, the feeder was attached to a weather balloon, and slowly lifted to an altitude of 90 m—so that the distance between the hive and the food now increased from 70 m to 114 m.


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