Sentence examples for termite in from inspiring English sources

We hear directly from Lark and, with a strangely intimate indirectness, from Termite, in Winfield, W.Va., in the summer of 1959.

Some esteem him simply as a great traditional painter; others see him as a termite in the house of Modernism, eating away at its hidden ideological foundations.

She sets her fourth novel, "Lark and Termite," in the 1950s, resting her sensitive, knowing gaze on two children in West Virginia and a father lost to the Korean War.

But then, she says, "he found a termite in my hair and got distracted, not returning his attention to me until its brittle waving legs were crunching between his teeth".

Will Smith's ode to the termite in "Ali" is, aptly enough, an exemplary piece of termite acting, one that is all the more vivid for occurring within a film that is, with its meticulous editing and intoxicating pageantry, a monument of white elephant cinema.

The Quarter is ground zero in the federal government's $15 million effort to thwart the Formosan, the most destructive species of termite in the world, capable of building colonies of up to 10 million writhing white bugs, which devour an average of 1,000 pounds of wood a year.

The sex difference in occurrence and ontogeny of sponging strongly suggests a sex-bias in social learning, similar to the development in termite fishing in chimpanzees [17].

Our identification of the TERP may lead to such technical innovation in termite control in the near future.

Spectacular mounds are built by fungus-growing termites in Indomalaya and Africa.

In a new book Mr Bhagwati calls them "termites in the trading system".

There were termites in the basement and rotting window frames that let snow in, Ms. Friedman said.