Sentence examples for mound about from inspiring English sources

Weighing more than 600 pounds, it rises into a mound about three and a half feet tall.

Next to the mound, about a trowelful of soil, was a hole that was easily an inch across.

The idea of the temple-pyramid may well have taken root by that time, for one Ocós site has produced an earthen mound about 26 feet (8 metres) high that must have supported a perishable building.

It was used on one mound about six feet long, three feet high and three feet wide that was giving off 1,000 rads per hour -- in other words, a fatal dose in about half an hour -- and appears unchanged after two years, said Paul C. Childress, vice president and general manager of the nuclear and environmental division of the company that makes the product, Eurotech.

When they looked at the volume of the settlement site — reflected by the size of the mound — about 9,500 sites had a significant elevation above the ground.

Once you have a decent mound (about 3' high), you'll want to expand your base.

The Darwin Mounds, covering about, are being considered as the first offshore SAC.

The mounds, about 100 feet in diameter, rise about 10 to 15 feet above the surrounding surface.

Or pipe batter into individual 2-inch mounds about 1 1/2 inches apart.

3. Using a cookie scoop or a spoon, scoop up 2 tablespoons of dough at a time, and shape into mounds about 2 inches apart on baking sheet.

At the Hi-Grade barn, the manure was only about six inches deep, lying in five mounds, about four feet wide and 600 feet long, on the floor beneath the long arrays of cages.