Sentence examples for mound of grass from inspiring English sources

"At that time, my idea for the World Trade Center site was a large green mound of grass," he continued.

And by partly burying the auditorium, library and secondary galleries in back, underneath a mound of grass, Mr. Piano keeps his building from dominating the site.

The tough exterior, as it turns out, protects an inner sanctuary: a large courtyard centered on a big mound of grass.

Closer, Espeseth saw that the birds were trapped on an island, a neat-mowed mound of grass ringed with a small fence and signs saying "Please Do Not Feed".

Roughly two-thirds of the exhibition includes art made before the attacks, and only one work — a collage by Ellsworth Kelly, who envisioned turning ground zero into a simple mound of grass — was made in response to 9/11.

Bilbao set the building on a big mound of grass and then stacked the floors, several at a time, in alternating bands of green, blue and bronze glass, some on a north-south axis, others facing east-west, so that their ends jut out in four directions.

A root house was "partially dug into the ground and roofed with a sloping mound of grass-covered earth".

The rows of victims stretch in perfect symmetry up a hill, each resting place marked by a mound of grass-covered earth, a simple headstone and a black-and-white photograph.

Little houses were tucked in groves of trees here and there, along lanes "worm-fenced with oak-rails split in the hillside forests". A root house was "partially dug into the ground and roofed with a sloping mound of grass-covered earth". In short, there was room for each thing to be just what it needed to be.

The living room window looks out over the abrupt end of the road and a mound of grassed-over rubble at the edge of waste ground where the boulevard was meant to be.

ON A scrubby hillside in southern Uganda sit waist-high mounds of grass and twigs.