Sentence examples for beehive cells from inspiring English sources

Across the water to the west was a spot on the Garvellachs where medieval monks used to live and pray in stone beehive cells.

A monastery sits on a terraced shelf with six beehive cells, two oratories, a medieval church and two lighthouses.

A Nod to the Pod Count 'em: Six strings on a guitar; six degrees of separation; 6th sense; six geese a laying; six articles of Islam belief; six points on a Star of David; six legs on insects; six sides of a beehive cell; and six members of an ice hockey team.

Its very existence on the twin peaked crag is awe-inspiring, as are the six well-preserved dry-built beehive-shaped cells that were once inhabited by monks.

It's also not hard to imagine that what binds you and your friends (and your "Friends") has analogs in ant colonies and beehives, tumor cells and the brain, terrorist groups and spam hosts, the Internet and the electrical power grid.

Physical traces of that community remain, battered by wind and rain but still clinging to the upper reaches of the island: carved Celtic crosses marking graves; the ruins of a small church; a primitive oratory and a few beehive-shaped monastic cells painstakingly built of mortarless, flat stones stacked in ever-constricting circles.

They were later rebuilt in stone, with underground cells and circular "beehive" huts like those used in Ireland.

Organisms certainly interact with their environments in ways that bias the transmission of their genes, but then so do entities that are both less inclusive than entire organisms (e.g., sperm cells) and more inclusive (e.g., beehives).

Running CNBC in the background makes my home office seem not like a solitary prison cell or torture chamber but like a beehive of cheerful, important activity.

In industrial beehives, the bees are regimented: they are given wax cells larger than they would build, and the queen is tricked into laying more eggs.

Honey is stored in the beehive or nest in a honeycomb, a double layer of uniform hexagonal cells constructed of beeswax (secreted by the worker bees) and propolis (a plant resin collected by the workers).