Sentence examples for like a termite from inspiring English sources

Censorship eats away at a society like a termite infestation: it goes unnoticed until one day the house falls down.

Censorship and the suppression of ideas eat away at society like a termite infestation: they go unnoticed until one day the house falls down.

Four inches long, hairless, pale, wrinkled, and spindly-legged, it lives in vast underground colonies in Africa, like a termite, and is more closely related to porcupines and guinea pigs than to moles or rats.

The bust is attended to by a motley assortment of minions, including what looks like a termite with a human head, and a severed arm wearing a black leather glove, which suggests that the director Jiri Barta is a Stanley Kubrick fan.

Like a termite colony, a human being is made up of a set of independent systems: different functional units responsible for (e.g).g

And he also says that if something like a "termite tower" (śakramūrdhan) does actually have the causal properties of fire i.e., the fitness (yogyatā) to produce real smoke then it indeed must be on fire (see Dunne 2004, 335 338).

"I done worked like a bee, a termite, an ant".

They lay eggs from a termite-like ovipositor.

LONDON — If a cloud of sawdust seems to hang over the Old Vic Theater these days, that's because Kevin Spacey is chewing his way through the scenery there like an atomic termite.

It looks more like an abandoned termites' nest.

There are always so many of them, like a million chattering termites.