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.

  • The distance to the target, a flower patch with abundant nectar or pollen, is encoded in the duration of the waggle run: the longer the bee waggles, the larger the distance of the food from the hive.

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

  • 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).

  • They trained bees to forage at a feeder on a boat, which was paddled increasing distances from the hive, until it reached an island.


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