mound

Example Sentences

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These concentrations are often referred to as "spikes" or "mounds."

From Science Daily

It revealed a Bronze Age barrow - an ancient burial mound - with the cremated bones of several people contained inside five closely-packed urns.

From BBC

Searching for diamonds is no easy task but the two friends would sift through mounds of dirt after work in the evenings, or whenever they got time off from their day jobs.

From BBC

Ohtani’s presence in the lineup and on the mound has propelled the Dodgers to back-to-back World Series championships.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a pasture a short walk from IRC’s clinic, ProPublica found at least three dozen mounds covered in sticks — the makeshift graves, village leaders said, of those who died of cholera before reaching the clinic.

From Salon