mound

The reality of illegally dumped waste sits before me in a colossal mound next to the side of a motorway.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

So, Ohtani kept trying to work his way back to the mound for weeks after receiving a lubricating Orthovisc injection in his knee at the beginning of the All-Star break.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Having risen and fallen before the advent of written history, the city was completely unknown before Mellaart discovered the mound during an archaeological survey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

When his elbow healed, he dominated at the plate and on the mound in ways not even Babe Ruth could have imagined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Danielle, Anna, and I had just reached the other mound when we turned around and saw Peter fire the snowball.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

After avalanches, a common winter hazard in the area, they were called upon to search for trapped hikers or skiers underneath heavy mounds of snow.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Like Mississippian societies, Safety Harbor communities formed smaller chiefdoms and constructed flat-topped mounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Things have been especially grim on the 51st Street overpass, where tents, makeshift structures and huge mounds of trash lined the sidewalks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Most district schools would not have mounds this high,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The fields are flat, the wood is too distant and dangerous—the only cover is the graveyard and the mounds.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

The hotel room had a sour, rancid smell, and clothes lay mounded in a corner.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

In addition to identifying forts similar to the walled fortresses Poidebard found, the team identified forts with interior architecture features and ones built around a mounded citadel.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

In the distance, a Boswell crew with earth-movers was building a levee, a rising barrier of mounded dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Goguryeo’s elites also learned from the Chinese the art of adorning their large, mounded tombs with colorful murals depicting the lives of royals surrounded by dancers, servants, and enslaved people.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Having mounded them up, I shuffled through them, discarding some upon the floor.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The solution was mounding the road a bit in the center and building sloping stone-lined ditches on both sides of the avenue to carry the runoff away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Taste and season with salt and pepper, then transfer to a platter, mounding it to one side.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

But radar satellites that measure ocean height can also find them, by looking for subtle signs of seawater mounding above a hidden seamount, tugged by its gravity.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023

Both heathers have a mounding habit and grow 2-by-2 feet.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

They gathered the silver to them, mounding it around, piling it high.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi