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Explore Mound through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like hill or aggregation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Mound in a sentence

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Mound | Mounds | Mounded | Moundville | Mounding | Moundsville | Mounders

Mound meaning

  1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
  2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  3. Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

Synonyms of Mound

hill aggregation collection cumulus cumulation agglomerate heap pile hammock hummock hillock knoll baseball equipment pitcher's mound accumulation

Related words

Other words often associated with Mound or its synonyms:

assemblage grouping group deal collecting batch flock stack assembling accretion accrual clustered

Using Mound

  • The main meaning on this page is: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
  • Useful related words include: hill, aggregation, collection, cumulus.
  • In the example corpus, mound often appears in combinations such as: the mound, mound and, mound for.

Context around Mound

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

elk 4× change 1× termite 1× big 1× existing 1×

Often after:

house 2× visit 2× key 1× collected 1× high 1× featuring 1× meeting 1× structure 1× itself 1× saturday 1×

Sentence patterns with Mound

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

1939 a mound at sutton 1× a big mound of fresh 1× a second mound to the 1× a termite mound and created 1× after the mound meeting commenced 1× at elk mound high school 1× at the mound house 1× elk mound collected seven 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a big mound 1× a few years 1× a five story 1× according to revered 1× adrian houser would 1× afghans congregate on 1×

Common sentence endings:

building it purposefully 1× central washington state 1× february 27 2018 1× had heard noises 1× human building design 1× in elk mound 1×

Words around Mound

Just before it in the word index:

mounce 4 mouna 2 moumouni 2 moults 8 moultrie 20 moulton 70

Just after it in the word index:

mounded 6 mounders 2 mounding 3 mounds 184 moundsville 3 moundville 5

Similar in corpus frequency:

aspirations 774 catalyst 774 demonstrating 774 ipad 774 militia 774 misinformation 774

Corpus analysis for Mound

  • In this selection, "mound" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, elk, change, termite, house, visit and key stand out and add context to how "mound" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1939 a mound at sutton and a big mound of fresh. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "mound" sits close to words such as aspirations, catalyst and demonstrating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with mound

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Nikoh Mitchell took the mound for the Bulldogs and wasn’t quite himself on the mound. (16 words)

The photographer has broken off a piece of a mound to show the mound's interior. (16 words)

According to revered architect P.B Chatwin, the Normans used a pre-existing mound rather than building it purposefully. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Elk Mound collected seven hits and were aided by as many walks from Glenwood City pitchers en route to a 10-0 shut out win over the Hilltoppers in the May 24 Division 3 regional opener at the Lions Park in Elk Mound. (43 words)

For his meals, he would take whole boiled potatoes, skin them, smash the potatoes into a mound, and then for a week consume the cold potatoes, leaving the fork in the mound when he put the mess back in the refrigerator. (41 words)

The mound visit rules will apply whether a game is scheduled for seven or nine innings and in the event of an extra-inning game, each club will be entitled to one additional non-pitching change mound visit per inning. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

He didn’t walk anyone after that first inning, scattered just three hits and left the mound after six innings with his third quality start in his last four trips to the mound.

On TU Jan 7 from 11:30 – 2:45pm, this tour begins at Fish Tale Marina as you board the Estero Bay Express for a boat ride to first the Mound House, then Mound Key.

Nikoh Mitchell took the mound for the Bulldogs and wasn’t quite himself on the mound.

Elk Mound collected seven hits and were aided by as many walks from Glenwood City pitchers en route to a 10-0 shut out win over the Hilltoppers in the May 24 Division 3 regional opener at the Lions Park in Elk Mound.

Elk Mound's Blake Rosenthal grabs the ball from the air after a Fall Creek shot during a regional quarterfinal basketball game at Elk Mound High School on February 27, 2018.

For his meals, he would take whole boiled potatoes, skin them, smash the potatoes into a mound, and then for a week consume the cold potatoes, leaving the fork in the mound when he put the mess back in the refrigerator.

I was probably 10 to 15 feet off the mound, and then making that slow walk up toward the mound, I think that made him feel comfortable over at third, just enough to take that step off.

Make plans now to attend Music on the Mound featuring Sheena Brook on SA Apr 21 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Mound House.

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Red Sox manager Alex Cora and the team’s trainer immediately went to the mound, and Pomeranz was pulled moments after the mound meeting commenced.

The mound visit rules will apply whether a game is scheduled for seven or nine innings and in the event of an extra-inning game, each club will be entitled to one additional non-pitching change mound visit per inning.

A few years prior to the tornado strike saw development near the mound including a water tank constructed near the top of the mound against the warnings of local Native Americans.

Newton, The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia, p. 44 In 1939, a mound at Sutton Hoo, now known as Mound 1, was discovered to contain an Anglo-Saxon ship-burial of unparalleled richness.

Researchers initially scanned a termite mound and created 3-D images of the mound structure, which revealed construction that could influence human building design.

The mound itself was from c. 500 BCE, but Harald had it built higher over his father's grave, and added a second mound to the south.

The photographer has broken off a piece of a mound to show the mound's interior.

A big mound of fresh dirt sits at Terry Taylor's marijuana farm in the high desert of north-central Washington state.

According to revered architect P.B Chatwin, the Normans used a pre-existing mound rather than building it purposefully.

Adrian Houser would have been in line to start on the mound Saturday, but he left after two innings against the San Diego Padres on Sunday because of minor right forearm tightness.

Afghans congregate on a mound of rubble in the wake of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Herat.

A five-story building had been reduced to a mound of concrete slabs and twisted metal, but for four hours the rescuers worked, convinced they had heard noises.

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Common combinations with mound

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "mound" in a sentence?
An example: "He didn’t walk anyone after that first inning, scattered just three hits and left the mound after six innings with his third quality start in his last four trips to the mound." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "mound" from authentic English texts.
What does "mound" mean?
Mound means: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
What are synonyms of "mound"?
Common synonyms of "mound" include: hill, aggregation, collection, cumulus, cumulation, agglomerate, heap, pile. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "mound" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "mound", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.