How to Use honeypot in a Sentence

honeypot

noun
  • There is no need for a honeypot.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Recent sales suggest top niche makers are still his honeypot.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Wide-mouth honeypots are perfect for dipping digits into each of the six colors.
    — Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The following figure tracks the number of attacks delivered to the honeypot over the past year.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Connected gadgets like thermostats and smart cameras ship with old software — a honeypot for hackers.
    — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 17 June 2021
  • To the Left, and President Biden, this wealth is a giant honeypot waiting to be tapped.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2024
  • 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
  • And how has your extension towards others depleted some of this solo honeypot?
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2018
  • These displays were a honeypot to entice would-be players—and often wholly unnecessary.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Any event of this magnitude is a honeypot to bad actors, who know there will be plenty of users out there itching to tap or point and click at a solution for their missing fixes.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Former Russian honeypot spy Aliia Roza spoke at length with Shawn Ryan about the same topic.
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • As Yiannopoulos flails, some of his erstwhile allies are hoping to dip into the Mercers’ reliable honeypot.
    — Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Another obstacle is Twitter’s reputation as a honeypot for trolls, harassers and fake news.
    — Jeran Wittenstein, Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Recent news also revealed a legal congressional honeypot, an account that some lawmakers have used to settle harassment claims out of court.
    — Erica Martinson, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Enlarge / Artist's conception of Valve's anti-cheat tentacles rising up to catch those caught by its memory honeypot.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Eugene is walking with his new love interest, Stephanie, who actually does appear interested in him rather than just a honeypot designed to lure in strangers.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yes, there’s the obvious danger of combining barreling down the highway with Fortnite, but experts are also warning that the games pose another risk as a honeypot for hackers.
    — Kevin Williams, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025

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