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How To Use mound In A Sentence

• Afghans say the mound where the Americans have made a base was once used by Alexander the Great, who defeated the local tribes of Afghanistan in the 4th century B.C. Since their arrival in April, the members of the 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Brigade, 25th Artillery, have been working to win over the local population rather than subjugate it. Making inroads in Afghanistan
• Each of us was served a little mound of risotto, on which I ground pepper and sprinkled Parmesan, with a side of green salad.
• It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• With rising medical costs growing by leaps and bounds, only the exclusive with mounds of $$$ will beable to afford it. Obama says health care delay is OK 'to get it right'
• It is argued, based on archaeological and ethnohistoric data, that the layout of the mound, burials, and charnel features is patterned after Native American notions of the cosmos.
• The thief smiled at the small mound of diamonds piled inside.
• Jay mounded flour, made a hole in it, and dumped in a pinch of salt and then an egg.
• The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.
• Mound soil into foot-tall beds, then lay drip tubing or soaker hoses down the center.
• To start, pour a small amount of dry pigment forming a mound onto a nonporous slab surface, such as glass or marble; then, make an impression in the center of the mound and, into that, pour a small amount of linseed or other oil. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints