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hummock

[ UK /hˈʌmək/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small natural hill

How To Use hummock In A Sentence

  • Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
  • Permafrost, however, exists in (very northern) Finland not only in palsa bogs and peat hummocks (=”pounu” in Finnish) but also on some fjeld top areas (=”paljakka” in Finnish). Predict future climate change! « Climate Audit
  • He had evidently sat still a good while for him, honest man; and he got up with this, and began to pace up and down, looking at the "hummocks," which signified greater meanings to him than to his wife. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
  • Featherlight tempura; hummock of sweet white crabmeat spiked with apple; shaami — tiny fishcake sultry with brown meat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Great lines of hummocks and haycock-shaped pieces of ice came in view on every side; we could see that we should have to keep our eyes open. The South Pole~ Through the Mountains
  • There was a beech table half eaten into by a geometrically precise hummocky valley and a pair of side tables made from cardboard, with what looked like the ghosts of elegant 18th-century cabriolet-legged wooden tables hovering inside them. Combining Craft with Digital
  • I get up, pull on warm clothes, and make my way slowly back to my hummock.
  • I dived from the hummock where the cut-bank crumbled. Thomas mcgrath | letters to an imaginary friend « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • It is situated on the ground, on grass clumps or hummocks in the open tundra.
  • Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena.
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