Sentence examples for termite hill from inspiring English sources

A quick start: To collect termites with your stick, first identify the termite hill (Illustration A).

The Maasai's achievements in one year are awe-inspiring, but this is just the tip of the termite hill.

... 8226; An immuno-suppressant drug being developed by GlaxoSmithKline that comes from a compound found in a termite hill in Gambia.

It becomes a sort of giant termite hill where everyone is silently, almost secretly, living out his life. .

The interior savanna is mostly open grassland, with much bare rock, many termite hills, and clumps of ita palm.

I saw five-foot-tall termite hills that looked like drippy sand castles; wolf-sized wild dogs, or dholes, frolicking like terriers; majestic deer, including stately sambars and the lyrically named barasinghas.

Within minutes we left the last human developments behind us, and we rolled for hours that first evening past desert scrub of acacia and gum trees and comically steepled termite hills.

Mary, who comes from a country where books are rare and precious, is shocked that Vanessa has stacks of books that she never seems to read, and pities Vanessa's "crumbling piles of paper like great dead termite hills".

"Termes," as the disease is known in Pokot's local language, conjures images for English speakers of the pointy termite hills that dot the dusty landscape and are a preferred dwelling place of the sandflies that transmit the disease.

These kalichas would say the person was attacked by Satan that came out of termite hills [common in the area] and would do different things.

In all trials, the loudspeaker was hidden behind large objects (e.g., termite hills and tree trunks), 10 15 m away from the caller.