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How to use mount in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mount means a hill or mountain. Example: “The rider climbed onto his mount.”

Examples of mount by meaning

nounAny of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.

  • the mount of Jupiter

nounAn animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.

  • The rider climbed onto his mount.

nounA mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.

  • The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.

nounA rider in a cavalry unit or division.

  • The General said he has 2,000 mounts.

verbTo get upon; to ascend; to climb.

  • to mount stairs
  • Would I mount?1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 144

verbTo place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

  • The rider mounted his horse.

verbTo attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.

  • to mount a mailbox on a post
  • to mount a specimen on a small plate of glass for viewing by a microscope
  • to mount a photograph on cardboard

verbTo attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.

  • Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it.1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide, page 377

More sentences with mount

  • The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.From the entry square
  • The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.From the entry design
  • A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.From the entry pair
  • This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!From the entry receipt
  • Mount Vernon is run by a strong democratic party organization.From the entry democratic
  • There's a lidar mounted on the roof of that Waymo.From the entry lidar
  • Of all the horses, their mounts were the finest.From the entry mounts
  • Mounted on the wall was a full-bore elephant gun.From the entry full-bore
  • Wingsails are typically mounted on an unstayed spar.From the entry unstayed
  • The after gun is mounted aft.From the entry after
  • The mounted cavalry rode into town.From the entry mounted
  • Mount Kumgang, or Geumgangsan, which translates as Diamond Mountain, has always been a muse for Koreans.2018 December 13, “North and South Korea meet through handshakes and art”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2018…. From the entry Kumgang
  • And so the graafs mounted their huge steeds and fled, breaking through the enemy lines.2016, Daniel O’Malley, Stiletto, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry graaf
  • Mount Tai, in the eastern province of Shandong, represents longevity in Chinese tradition.2016 February 15, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China’s Legal Professionals, Under Limits at Home, Note Scalia’s Death”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Mount Tai
  • The mounted detachments at hand had found the heavily brushed country to be difficult for cavalry operations.2015, Clifford Dowdey, Lee: A Biography. From the entry brushed
  • Stephen's Day, Marc mounted his horse, ready to leave Windsor, Cecily, and all of Angleterre.2015, Blythe Gifford, chapter 13, in Whispers at Court, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Historical, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry St. Stephen's Day
  • Plant specimens were mounted for permanent storage on sheets of ragbond paper along with their corresponding label.2015 August 11, Nemer E. Narchi et al., “An ethnomedicinal study of the Seri people; a group of hunter-gatherers and fishers native to the…. From the entry ragbond
  • The test piece was mounted on the UV curing station and photopolymerized for 10 minutes.2015 August 18, Jin-Young Park et al., “Comparison of prosthetic models produced by traditional and additive manufacturing methods”, in…. From the entry photopolymerize
  • The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people.2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, archived from…. From the entry shortage
  • SUSAN: – And you're travelling faster than a train on a mount who never grows tired.2012 May 28, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry lionback
  • In typical Necker style, the farmer walked to the line and mounted his gun without any shilly-shally.2011, Deeanne Gist, Love on the Line, page 138. From the entry grass
  • She will avert her tail to the side (flagging), standing still when the male mounts.2011 January 3, Pete Haswell, “Life and Behaviour of Wolves”, in Wolf Print. From the entry flag
  • I mount my palomino and ride off; his flaxen mane and tail are full of the wind.2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 217. From the entry palomino
  • Crest — On a mount an apple tree in fruit ppr.2009 June 1, John Matthews, Matthews, Complete American Armoury and Blue Book, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry in fruit
  • Drill some dogholes, mount a vise, and you have a useful addition to your shop.2008, Woodworking Techniques. From the entry doghole
  • Once all mounted up, the two multiples sped off to the emergency RV point.2007 Pte John Catterson, Army The Soldiers Newspaper, The Australian Army (Retrieved 14 July 2009). From the entry RV
  • They also published in clothbound, hardback volumes with full-color paintings mounted on the front.2007 May 17, Charles Mcgrath, “Magazine Suspends Its Run in History”, in New York Times. From the entry clothbound
  • One of the first steps in gunfitting is to develop a consistent and repeatable gun mount.2006, Tom Deck, Orvis Guide to Gunfitting, page 22. From the entry gunfitting
  • The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car.2005, James Meek, The People’s Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 31. From the entry pintle

Meaning of mount

  1. noun A hill or mountain.
  2. noun Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  3. noun A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.

Full definition of mount

Questions about mount in a sentence

How do you use mount in a sentence?
Mount is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The rider climbed onto his mount.”
What is a short sentence with mount?
“Would I mount?”
What does mount mean?
Mount means a hill or mountain.

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