All through their brief history, the ants had got into the habit of deceiving themselves that there must be an Enemy.

"I hope the ants didn't get to it," she said, moving to a shaded area beside the stream and spreading a cloth upon the ground.

"Some people react more violently than others when ants get inside the house."

Both products, he said, come in child-resistant containers that ants can get into and out of easily enough.

Put this stuff somewhere where the ants won't get into the cake.

I made a cake yesterday and ants got in the icing.

I tried to keep the whole skin but the white ants got at it.

Sherry pouted like a little girl when she found ants had got into her picnic basket before they did.

A red ant that crawls underneath the shell gets crushed.

The ants get into some of the things in the cave-larder.