NOUN
- habitation for wasps or hornets
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a highly contentious or hazardous situation
talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets' nest
How To Use hornets' nest In A Sentence
- If the President continues to shake the hornets' nest by refusing to cede oversight and administrative power to the Parliament, then the fireworks show will continue.
- talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets' nest
- It wasn't long before the children were spotting deer tracks, gopher burrows, butterflies, hornets' nests and budding flowers.