Music on the Green comes to the plaza near the Madeline Hotel & Residences, while the Sunset Music Series stage is located on a grassy knoll near the top of chairlift 1.—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024 The conspiracy-minded director, who’s never seen a grassy knoll without glimpsing a second gunman on it, is drawing an analogy between Lula’s political travails, involving a corruption investigation that led to a 580-day prison stint, and those of Donald Trump.—Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2024 Under drizzly clouds one day this spring, Threadgill-Matthews accelerated up the grassy knoll where Camden Academy once stood.—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024 The panel found that there was no medical evidence that he was caught in the crossfire by a second shooter firing from a grassy knoll, a theory that arose after the release in 1975 of Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of the assassination.—Trip Gabriel, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for knoll
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English knol, from Old English cnoll; akin to Old Norse knollr mountaintop
Verb
Middle English, probably alteration of knellen to knell
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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