Examples of hillock in a Sentence
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As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
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Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
The entree is a carnivore’s dream: A beef medallion gets pounded thin and layered with Virginia ham and cheese, an indulgence balanced with a hillock of sprightly greens.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
The black splotches were raised, like tiny hillocks, and covered in even tinier white stipples.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
Dust becomes rock, flats become hillocks.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
Why, when a statistically insignificant number of SUV owners ever venture off-road, would Porsche—a company that year in, year out builds the best sports cars in the world—burden the Cayenne with such silly amounts of heavy, hillock-humping capacity?
—Dan Neil, Car and Driver, 2 June 2020
The luggage capacity is slightly reduced by the carpeted hillock behind the rear seats, under which dwell some of the power electronics.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
The entree is a carnivore’s dream: A beef medallion gets pounded thin and layered with Virginia ham and cheese, an indulgence balanced with a hillock of sprightly greens.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
The black splotches were raised, like tiny hillocks, and covered in even tinier white stipples.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
Dust becomes rock, flats become hillocks.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
Why, when a statistically insignificant number of SUV owners ever venture off-road, would Porsche—a company that year in, year out builds the best sports cars in the world—burden the Cayenne with such silly amounts of heavy, hillock-humping capacity?
—Dan Neil, Car and Driver, 2 June 2020
The luggage capacity is slightly reduced by the carpeted hillock behind the rear seats, under which dwell some of the power electronics.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hillock. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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hillock
noun
hill·ock
ˈhil-ək 
: any small anatomical prominence or elevation see axon hillock
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