noun

• A small mound of earth thrown up by a mole burrowing near the surface.

  ‘the frosts and lack of plant growth will serve to make molehills stand out more’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Here's more advice for those of us who suffer from moles and molehills in our lawns, this time from the Garden Centre, near Preston.’
  • ‘Moles don't dig new tunnels each time they forage, and in fact a very active mole territory may sport very few molehills.’
  • ‘It is quite common to see moles covered in soil after pushing there way through molehills but have you ever actually seen a muddy fox?’
  • ‘Moles were doing the Chalkland Way, leaving molehills of white-flecked soil.’
  • ‘The way to find microliths (small Mesolithic flint barbs), he said, was to search springtime molehills.’
  • ‘Go down to the field (if you find fields on the side of the river then even better) and look for some molehills.’
  • ‘Their neighbour agreed, saying: ‘The embankment is full of molehills.’’
  • ‘That would be much more helpful than removing molehills from a sports field.’
  • ‘The house looked bland and there was nothing in the garden except molehills.’
  • ‘Featuring all the worst aspects of a neglected garden on one side of the fence, including dandelions, thistles, and molehills, it had a beautiful cottage garden on the other.’
  • ‘But my invisible friend still works at night despite the cold; one of the molehills is snowless, dark and fresh between two frosty bottles.’
  • ‘As if disturbed by the mere threat of either of these cures, our moles have been quiet for a few days, but I will certainly try them out should the molehills start to reappear.’
  • ‘All summer there have been molehills in the orchard.’
  • ‘We had set off on a romp and a ramble through tangly woods and snow dusted fields and had found ourselves standing on molehills and wondering just exactly where we were.’
  • ‘Cod Beck carries on, squirting from beneath a sloping earthen dam, which had a few molehills, and then gurgling into a wooded ravine.’
  • ‘Pupils from Cawood Primary School joined in the scheme when they helped sift through molehills looking for artefacts.’
  • ‘Landowners have been struggling to control a mole epidemic which has resulted in an explosion in the number of molehills.’
  • ‘The sight of new molehills here and there reminded me of an old farm worker I knew who was a good hand at catching moles.’
  • ‘It is also mercifully free of molehills, which are the scourge of our sandy garden.’
  • ‘Some racers struggled up the final climb, even though it was a molehill compared to the high mountain passes that must be scaled in the Alps.’