molehill
Example Sentences
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I’m making mountains out of molehills again, like Dad says I do.
From Literature
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They are widely seen as a pest on agricultural land because their tunnelling can damage the root systems of crops and pasture and the molehills can cause damage to machinery.
From BBC
Pardon me, but I resented being called a molehill almost as much as being called a rat.
From Literature
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And some of his most unexpected laughs are in his own mixing up of mountains and molehills.
From New York Times
When the mass of several suns is compressed into an orb that is 10 km in diameter, extreme gravity crushes mountains of superdense material into molehills that are millimeters tall.
From Scientific American
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