anthills

I don't like "anthills," and NYC is an anthill, albeit a large one.

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"anthills" of bad guys and bleeding off drones until you've emptied the nest.

PCWorld 2010

How many anthills do we visit and introduce ourselves to?

Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch 2009

I'm driven by the same curiosity that compelled me, as a child, to prod anthills with sticks, or turn over rocks to see what would slither out.

Essay by Tess Gerritsen, author of The Apprentice and The Surgeon 2010

Instead of anthills and fallen tree branches, I spoke of friends and school, hopes and fears.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

The twisters ripped through trailer parks like mad kids kicking over anthills, the random mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, flicked from the earth as if they were unsuspecting ants.

Coffee-Stained Fangs (excerpt) Chris Miller 2011

BEST KAIJU VILLAIN: Look, when we humans have a picnic, we don't walk around the anthills, do we?

MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Literary Villains in SF/F/H 2009

The city's teeming tenements were "anthills of humanity," the author says, and rightly so: They packed in 290,000 people to the square mile.

A Gangster Goes to War Winston Groom 2010

However, these suburbs, with fantastic neighbours and wide meandering streets are vastly different than the cheek-to-jowl anonymous townhouse anthills that are being built here today.

» Why I Love the Suburbs Strocel.com 2009

The last time I hiked was more than six months at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni in Italy; and those peaks above Lake Como were anthills compared to this.

Margie Goldsmith: Climbing the Gros Piton in St. Lucia Margie Goldsmith 2011