honeycombs

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I'm looking for something with observably significant wear - honeycombs, fades and creases.

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  • Entering the tunnel, the two detectives walk gingerly across the "honeycombs". —  Body
  • SIKES Hydrofluoric acid was in those "honeycombs". —  Body
  • Others reminded the men of complicated spatial arabesques such as might be formed by multilayered honeycombs or sieves with three- or five-cornered openings. —  Stanislaw Lem - The Invincible
  • This time, the honeycombs were built into interlocking towers and cross-braces You can watch it for hours," the Rinpoche's Voice said, "and the same events recur, but never in the same way. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • At one hive, he paused to fix another frame for the honeycombs onto the existing ones. —  A Letter of Mary - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 03
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