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31 examples of Mound in a sentence

And the nest maintenance workers just take all the toothpicks to the outer edge of the nest mound and leave them there.
That's a termite mound, a giant termite mound.
It is not unconscious like a termite mound fractal.
This would result in a flood of x-rays that would spread out in a bubble along with exotic particles, plasma inside, centered on the pitcher's mound, and that would move away from the pitcher's mound slightly faster than the ball.
When later archaeologists studied the site, they realized that the mound consisted of no less than nine cities, each built atop the ruins of the last.
But inside the mound was indeed evidence for a city that had thrived during the Bronze Age, with charred stone, broken arrowheads, and damaged human skeletons suggesting a violent end.
One week after we began composting our fifth donor body, the temperature inside that mound of wood chips reached 158 degrees Fahrenheit.
Outside a mound of garbage formed the border between Southland and the adjacent legal neighborhood of Langata.
And at the center of this mound was a small, peculiar rock about the size of a child's hand.
As a mound of sand races towards them, the pair’s unnatural gait turns into a sprint.
And it's a bit like a termite's mound, you know?
Termites, I would take half of the colony of the termites away, they would still be able to build the mound.
Here is a limbless animal, capable of gathering a huge mound of leaves, and then laying her eggs inside, to withstand 5 to 10 [meters of rainfall], in order that the eggs can incubate over the next 90 days, and hatch into little baby king cobras.
Now, that mound right there actually looks like this.
Environmental consideration was served with every plate, but it was served with a heaping mound of consideration for human interests at the same time.
Still, while I did not leave a heaping mound of sodden Kleenex in the theater, I did use one, and at frequent intervals.
The movie deals with all kinds of sensitive topics, like elitism, racism, alienation, despair, etc. Yes, I know it is a comedy, but seeing a Coach strike his kid on the mound, seeing players from the rival Yankees degrade the misfit Bears' players, seeing Buttermaker push away one of his players because she wants him to be a father figure, there is real drama at work here.
When there car cut in half, when he was about to hit the mound of TNT, yes very "kid" slapstick, he turns around and says " isn't this a bit contrite."
You realize that this mound of goodness was nothing more than fluffy cooked dough that will ultimately make you fat, lazy, and sleepy.
Early in the film Babe takes a turn on the mound.
All three of us had high hopes for the series having been impressed by the adverts we had seen on TV however the first action scene which takes place behind a large mound was so comical all three of us couldn't help laughing, they where only getting shot at from one direction and where barely outnumbered and not even out gunned yet they are behaving like they are all about to die!
The grave was then covered over with the rubble dug from the seafloor, and it formed a low mound.
Five minutes after having left the beach, the reporter and his two companions arrived at a sort of excavation, hollowed out at the back of a high mound.
Neb, Herbert, and Pencroft left the cave and directed their steps towards a high mound crowned with a few distorted trees.
What a man!"Arrived at the summit of the mound, Pencroft and his two companions set to work, with no other tools than their hands, to despoil of its principal branches a rather sickly tree, a sort of marine fir; with these branches they made a litter, on which, covered with grass and leaves, they could carry the engineer.
"Yes, master," replied Neb; "here, at the entrance, at the back of the mound, in a place sheltered from the rain and wind.
Before eight o'clock Harding and his companions were assembled at the summit of the crater, on a conical mound which swelled the northern edge.
At six o'clock in the morning, the engineer and his three companions had passed Creek Glycerine, and Neb posted himself behind a small mound crowned by several dragon trees, on the left bank of the stream.
Levin followed, and often thought he would certainly fall when climbing a mound with his scythe in his hand – a mound so steep that it would have been hard to climb even unencumbered.
Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word "Resurgam."