hummock in English

noun
1
a hillock, knoll, or mound.
They watch for prey from slightly elevated perches such as hummocks , rocks, and fence posts.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "hummock" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "hummock", or refer to the context using the word "hummock" in the English Dictionary.

1. He was still standing on the hummock piping the fife in the long dusk.

2. High up on the hummock, I am free, free to walk my horse.

3. The sedimentology of four moraine ridges and one moraine hummock favours deposition in subglacial cavities.

4. Just a bundle of suffixes and prefixes piled up into a little attention-grabbing hummock.

5. It has 28 letters, but what is it? Just a bundle of suffixes and prefixes piled up into a little attention-grabbing hummock.

6. Cushion plant A plant that forms a tight low hummock as an adaptation to cold and dry or windy situations.

7. Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass, and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders.

8. There was a particular hummock of coral that caused the green vans to slow to a crawl, gears clashing as they shifted down.

9. Coral reef, ridge or hummock formed in shallow ocean areas by algae and the calcareous skeletons of certain coelenterates, of which Coral polyps are the most important

10. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

11. A year later, plants such as woolgrass Bulrush, brome hummock sedge, giant bur-reed, marsh marigold, queen-of-the-prairie and spike gayfeather are attracting dragonflies and monarch butterflies.