Sentence examples for a sand mound from inspiring English sources

An American flag fluttered atop a sand mound, and trucks rumbled back and forth carrying sandbags to hot spots along the river.

With such a system -- commonly referred to as a sand mound -- the required amount of porous soil is obtained by adding it to the surface, and the leach field is then installed aboveground in the sand mound.

"But if that piece of property is your dream property," Mr. Longwell said, "you might be happy you can install a sand mound because without it, you may not be able to use the land for anything at all".

A sand mound for a three-bedroom house, for example, could be 30 feet wide by 70 feet long or even larger and as much as 5 feet high.

"The cost of a typical system with a subsurface absorption area would probably be in the $5,000 range," Mr. Longwell said, adding that a sand-mound system, which requires trucking in as much as 100 tons of special sand, could cost five times that amount.

Talk story about taking a walk on the beach the Sunday afternoon before Easter and discovering an unusual sand mound.

By James Stevenson The New Yorker, May 5, 1973 P. 34 Talk story about taking a walk on the beach the Sunday afternoon before Easter and discovering an unusual sand mound.

After an hour, we came to a small sign (easy to miss) that pointed left, and we climbed hundreds of feet up a giant ocher sand mound that offered panoramic views of the desert floor.

In only a few minutes, one boy had flung together a hamlet of sand mounds protected by a low, curving wall.

Microhabitat: Coarse sand mound 10' tall on open sparesely grassy slope.

More vents were designed on the external mound upper box, in particular, on the sand mound upper box at the water jacket position of the ranging arm.