Noun : The building was a honeycomb of offices and showrooms. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : an old log honeycombed with ant burrows. ,a city honeycombed with vice. From Dictionary.com.
The body features a maple top over a "honeycombed" ash core, i.e. the body is porous, i.e. chambered, i.e. you got the picture from the term. From Wordnik.com. [Gearwire -] Reference
"honeycombed" with disaffection with respect to the same issues that a trade union could have addressed. From Wordnik.com. Reference
They were also honeycombed with anchorites 'cells. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Yes, her apartment was honeycombed with indiscretions. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
Later she learned that the ridge was honeycombed with them. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
The hills round that 'ere region are honeycombed with caves. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
The two claims on Red Ruin became as honeycombed as a wasp's nest. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Hill is fairly honeycombed with prospect holes, shafts and tunnels. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
New York and the whole administration was honeycombed with corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The hills are mere bubbles, and the earth is honeycombed with caverns. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The surface of the Moon round Tycho is honeycombed with small volcanoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The Homestead was honeycombed with private rooms, booths and telephones. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference
Senussi sitting on the fence and Egypt honeycombed with seditious propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Failure was written all over the two honeycombed claims, but it never daunted him. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Here the walls were no smooth barrier, but honeycombed with niches in a regular pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The cliffs opposite the ancient Egyptian capitals are honeycombed with sepulchral cells. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
This sudden collapse had come because the foundations of his faith had been honeycombed. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
It leaves a bluish scar which soon turns white and the part is roughened and honeycombed. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
In many places the sides of these tunnel passages were almost honeycombed with open graves. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
When ¾-in. stones or smaller were used in the arch, the inside was honeycombed; but, where. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
I met a number of these personages, fat, with remarkably red faces and large honeycombed noses. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Glistening with a red metallic sheen, they looked somewhat like tulips with honeycombed centers. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
In places these were honeycombed with caves, running back, apparently, some distance into the bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
The Department was honeycombed with just such points of insecurity, leaks which it was my duty to stop. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
There are four large buildings of brick and stone; honeycombed with cells -- the homes of the prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
The country had been honeycombed with their spies prior to and during the war, very much as Russia had been. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
All Palestine is honeycombed with rock-cut tombs, which form a fascinating and inexhaustible field of study. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
The ministry itself is more or less permeated and honeycombed with the abominations called 'Higher Criticism,'. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
The island is of sandstone, all honeycombed with cavities of different sizes, sometimes making beautiful arches. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
We had been clambering about the hill, seeing the caves with which it is honeycombed, but at present they were uninhabited. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
The Rock of Gibraltar is honeycombed with caves, passageways, and chambers, some of which are natural and others artificial. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The surface is often remarkably honeycombed, and the rock weathers into pinnacles, pillars and arches of extraordinary shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Is it not better to prevent disease than to try the cure after it has become established, or has honeycombed the constitution?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
It is stalked like a mushroom, but the surface of the conical cap is honeycombed with shallow depressions, lined with the spore sacs. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The ground here, too, was quite honeycombed with the burrows of the little petrels, and into these their footsteps broke every moment. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
No attempt was made to cover the hole, and by night the sod presented a honeycombed appearance never before seen by the oldest settlers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
So the students used everything from Styrofoam and NOMEX (a featherweight honeycombed material by Dupont) to graphite fibers soaked in epoxy. From Wordnik.com. [Gentlemen, Start Your Rays] Reference
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