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Noun
Perched on a grassy knoll on the edge of downtown, The Inn sits comfortably away from bustling Main Street while maintaining easy walking distance to all of Berlin’s shops, restaurants, and galleries.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 July 2025 The house sits on a knoll on the western shore of the freshwater/saltwater lagoon.—Mary Forgione, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025 This backward—or retrograde—movement was inconsistent with Oswald’s position to the rear in the Texas School Book Depository, pointing instead to a shooter on the infamous grassy knoll.—Alec Nevala-Lee
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025 An order opening the knoll would both halt a blatant violation of law and encourage the rulebreaker to promptly plead his case without further infuriating delays.—Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for knoll
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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