as in mountain
a small hill
The hummocks of grass dotting the landscape were easy to traverse.
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Recent Examples of hummock
Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.
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Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.
—Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
There, in a tangle of roots, dead wood and grass on a hummock about the size of a pitcher's mound, coiled a 2-foot-long snake.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Like a swarm of rattlesnakes trying to escape their den, the first rat launches itself off the hummock toward the safety of the Roseau cane, revealing five or six others beneath.
—Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2020
The SoHo townhouse is packed with hummocks of clothes and sundry stuff, much of it to be donated to charity.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
Now the potholed muddy track meandering among the hummocks barely resembles a road.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
As the permafrost thaws across Yakutia, some land sinks, transforming the terrain into an obstacle course of hummocks and craters — called thermokarst.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.
—Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
There, in a tangle of roots, dead wood and grass on a hummock about the size of a pitcher's mound, coiled a 2-foot-long snake.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Like a swarm of rattlesnakes trying to escape their den, the first rat launches itself off the hummock toward the safety of the Roseau cane, revealing five or six others beneath.
—Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2020
The SoHo townhouse is packed with hummocks of clothes and sundry stuff, much of it to be donated to charity.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
Now the potholed muddy track meandering among the hummocks barely resembles a road.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
As the permafrost thaws across Yakutia, some land sinks, transforming the terrain into an obstacle course of hummocks and craters — called thermokarst.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hummock
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The mountains of the West, parts of Michigan and New York, along with interior northern New England likely have enough snow on the ground now that at least an inch of it will stick around through Christmas Day.Mary Gilbert, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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Western Siskiyou County is similarly advised, while those in the West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada mountains and Western Plumas County and Lassen Park County should also take care.Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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That’s because the mounds were hard and also sensitive to touch.Julia Ries, SELF, 11 Dec. 2024
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Video showed several homeowners in Erie, Pennsylvania, hand shoveling large piles of snow and using snow blowers to clear the mounds from their driveways and walkways Saturday, according to CNN affiliate WICU.Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 1 Dec. 2024
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For climbing, the sandstone cliffs at Long Dong soar above crashing waves.Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
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Or rappel down 20-million-year-old cliffs in Kangaroo Point.Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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On March 1, 2021, the abusive behavior reached its peak, alleges the family.Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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One result of those slack prices is that U.S. average pump prices for gasoline fell to $3.03 a gallon this week, the lowest since May 2021 and well down from their record peak of $5.02 in June 2022, according to motoring club AAA.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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The next wave of snow could bring another 1-2 inches and accumulate on elevated areas, such as grassy knolls, bridges and overpasses.Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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In reality, the slant was just 25 degrees, but even a knoll seems formidable under the strain of psychic baggage.Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
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The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
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The lower Alabama of wiregrass, peanut farms, and sandy fields where I was raised is a different world than Rick’s Appalachian foothills.Cassandra King, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2024
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Winter weather advisories go into effect Tuesday night for the Palmer Divide ridge in central Colorado and the state's southern foothills.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Hummock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hummock. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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