HIVE in a Sentence

Learn HIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

38 example sentences for HIVE, such as:

1. A hive can't exist without a queen.
2. A hive cannot exist without a queen.
3. The construction site was a hive of activity.
4. In the morning the house was a hive of activity.
5. Everyone would be hived off to set up his own family.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hive
 n.  box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees; a place swarming with busy occupants; crowd
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  History, that is, the unconscious, general, hive life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
2  It was empty in the sense that a dying queenless hive is empty.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
3  In a queenless hive no life is left though to a superficial glance it seems as much alive as other hives.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
4  But one has only to observe that hive to realize that there is no longer any life in it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
5  There are no longer sentinels sounding the alarm with their abdomens raised, and ready to die in defense of the hive.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
6  In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
7  Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
8  The beekeeper opens the lower part of the hive and peers in.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
9  The beekeeper opens the upper part of the hive and examines the super.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
10  Drones, bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies knock awkwardly against the walls of the hive in their flight.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
11  The beekeeper closes the hive, chalks a mark on it, and when he has time tears out its contents and burns it clean.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
12  A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
13  The hive of joy was opened, and each one brought her honey.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
14  Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
15  This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Example Sentence:
1  In the morning the house was a hive of activity.
2  The construction site was a hive of activity.
3  A hive cannot exist without a queen.
4  A hive can't exist without a queen.
5  When a hive is threatened, bees release a pheromone-like substance which is called an alarm odor.
6  In May or June bees generally swarm, that is, the bees having become too numerous for the hive, a portion of them go forth to seek a new abode.
7  Everyone would be hived off to set up his own family.
8  The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.