Explore Anthill through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like knoll or mound. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Anthill meaning
A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
Using Anthill
- The main meaning on this page is: A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
- Useful related words include: formicary, knoll, mound, hillock.
- In the example corpus, anthill often appears in combinations such as: an anthill, anthill studios, anthill and.
Context around Anthill
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Anthill
- In this selection, "anthill" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, whole, house and studios stand out and add context to how "anthill" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a whole anthill in the and anthill studios owned. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "anthill" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with anthill
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And when they donate, they blow a trumpet on the anthill. (11 words)
But make sure that you don’t make a mountain of an anthill and draw wrong conclusions. (17 words)
No one ever imagined him being retrieved from a hole with beards that looked like the forest of an anthill. (20 words)
For while there are still journalists that command wide audiences (with a reach greater than print media could ever dream of emulating), their personalities are as overshadowed by Ivins as an anthill is by K2. (35 words)
But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it. (31 words)
A mining engineer who worked on the construction confirmed it had been built for the president and said 'there is a whole anthill in the rock under the house'. (29 words)
Example sentences (9)
A mining engineer who worked on the construction confirmed it had been built for the president and said 'there is a whole anthill in the rock under the house'.
Anthill Studios, owned by Niyi Akinmolayan, in partnership with Nollywood actress, Eniola Ajao will debut a Yoruba epic movie titled Beast of Two Worlds (Ajakaju) this Easter.
But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.
Producer and Director Niyi Akinmolayan returns as an unstoppable force in the movie industry as his production house Anthill Studios makes another comeback in 2024 with “Casa De Novia”.
And when they donate, they blow a trumpet on the anthill.
For while there are still journalists that command wide audiences (with a reach greater than print media could ever dream of emulating), their personalities are as overshadowed by Ivins as an anthill is by K2.
No one ever imagined him being retrieved from a hole with beards that looked like the forest of an anthill.
While wandering the sandy area by the parking lot to pass the time, I accidentally stepped on an anthill and the bugs swarmed my exposed foot.
But make sure that you don’t make a mountain of an anthill and draw wrong conclusions.
Common combinations with anthill
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an anthill 5×
- anthill studios 2×
- anthill and 2×