Example Sentences
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The hotel room had a sour, rancid smell, and clothes lay mounded in a corner.
From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2024
In addition to identifying forts similar to the walled fortresses Poidebard found, the team identified forts with interior architecture features and ones built around a mounded citadel.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023
In the distance, a Boswell crew with earth-movers was building a levee, a rising barrier of mounded dirt.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023
These kings commanded large armies, drawing legitimacy from their military prowess and creating mounded tombs that required vast resources and labor.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In poor neighborhoods garbage mounded in alleys and overflowed giant trash boxes that became banquet halls for rats and bluebottle flies.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
