Sentence examples for like mounds from inspiring English sources

(The colonies, which look like mounds of sawdust, can cover an area the size of a suburban back yard).

As you look more closely, this figure appears, face down, stirring like mounds from the sand, like somebody covered in sand, or made loosely from sand.

They are then carefully coated in herby spring dressings chopped in piles on my chopping board, heady and fresh, like mounds of just-mown grass.

Other designers use plants, landforms like mounds and slopes and other basic elements of traditional landscape architecture to create something connected to the land but not easily described as a garden.

So in desperation, I gave the building a flat roof and then spent an hour applying white frosting from a can - snow! Which looked nothing like mounds of snow but rather more like piles of insulation, left behind by a work crew who had gone on strike.

That explosive reaction quickly produces masses of high-quality BNNTs that look like mounds of cotton candy--more high-quality BNNTs than anyone has ever been able to make at once.

A little gold leaf dabbed on top will lift these funny little brain-like mounds to new heights.

In the valley of T1, above the confluence of two streams, we could see several rectangular features and long, pyramid-like mounds arranged in squares, which covered at least several hundred acres.

Three plateau-like mounds marked the ILR landfill, the closed Edison municipal landfill and the notorious Kin-Buc hazardous waste dump, which was No. 1 on the federal government's list of Superfund sites in the 70's and 80's.

In Kakadu – as well as in Litchfield National Park, much nearer Darwin – the astonishing spectacle of giant grey slab-like mounds two or even three metres high all facing the same direction can be found in swampy treeless areas liable to flooding.

Mima-like mounds are thus interpreted as degraded Vertisols.