She watched the sun set behind the hills.
The house was built at the very top of the hill.
Our driveway is a long, steep hill.
He came barreling down the hill at 65 miles per hour.
The plows came and cleared the streets, forming a hill of snow on the street corner.
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anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale
hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze
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: a usually rounded area of land that is higher than the land around it but that is not as high as a mountain
: an area of sloping ground on a road, path, etc.
: a pile of something
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