How to Use honeypot in a Sentence

honeypot

noun
  • Two picks would give them more ammo in the honeypot of the draft.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The idea was to set up a honeypot in case the attacker returned.
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2024
  • To the Left, and President Biden, this wealth is a giant honeypot waiting to be tapped.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2024
  • So was the plum pudding, which melted in one’s mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.
    — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • During droughts and the dry season, some of these ants support their colony by growing their own honeypots.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The following figure tracks the number of attacks delivered to the honeypot over the past year.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That allows honeypots such as Geenens' to estimate the size of the botnet based on the number of IPs doing the scanning.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Last week, Reed’s daughter saw a swarm of bees, which led to the discovery of a beehive and a reserve of honey (Reed calls it a honeypot) in a tree in Reed’s backyard.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 13 July 2023
  • The Salvadoran artist hadn’t been to the international fair, which serves as a honeypot for the art world elite, since before the pandemic.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • His destination, a depression forty feet down into the flowing ochreous void, had in the past proved a honeypot.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Some have heralded this sly ploy of providing a type of honeypot to get potential evildoers on the hook.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • Word of the crashes first emerged five days ago, when researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered a malicious, in-the-wild Bluekeep exploit caused one of his honeypots to crash four times overnight.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Recent sales suggest top niche makers are still his honeypot.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The digitally literate among us will of course recognize this as some kind of half-assed honeypot.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Australian honeypot ants gather nectar from a range of floral sources, but they’re thought to prefer a sticky, sweet substance called honeydew made by mulga trees and aphids.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Artworks will be re-homed in small towns and villages, in a bid to spread tourists -- and their spending, as well as their impact on the environment -- around the region, instead of centering them around the Florence honeypot.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • As Yiannopoulos flails, some of his erstwhile allies are hoping to dip into the Mercers’ reliable honeypot.
    — Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • As Yiannopoulos flails, some of his erstwhile allies are hoping to dip into the Mercers’ reliable honeypot.
    — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 20 Oct. 2017
  • This eco-focused retreat in surfing honeypot Sumba is the first property from new hoteliers Fabrice and Eve Ivara, who bought this stretch of land after visiting the area in 2017.
    — Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Now that Valve's honeypot has been revealed publicly, though, similar systems seem a lot less likely to be effective at catching cheaters in the future.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Her best advice for anyone hoping to apply her clients’ expertise to their own much smaller honeypot is to lean on these six tenets to manage investments, and maintain and build wealth.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • With Thompson and Durant out of the picture, opposing defenses will swarm around Curry like bees at a honeypot, especially when there’s a make-or-break shot at hand.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Connected gadgets like thermostats and smart cameras ship with old software — a honeypot for hackers.
    — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 17 June 2021
  • Part slipper, part clog, the sensible slip-on has proliferated street style round-ups and boujee honeypots all summer.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 28 July 2023
  • Not only is Davis, 38, now cured of his phobia, he’s also tapped into a life-changing social media honeypot with more than 2 million followers on a slew of channels.
    — Jason Nark, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
  • London has become a honeypot for the international super-rich, especially in the past twenty years, as the city has emerged as the world’s financial center.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • And how has your extension towards others depleted some of this solo honeypot?
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Cohn’s personal take from that honeypot? $72.5 million.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Cohn’s personal take from that honeypot? $72.5 million.
    — William D. Cohan, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • These bais, marshy, natural clearings dotted all around the Congo Basin, are honeypots for numerous animals—forest elephants gather here to mine the mineral-rich soil, buffaloes come to graze on plants heavy with protein.
    — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024

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