How to Use foothill in a Sentence

foothill

noun
  • Mackey's youth was spent in the foothills.
    CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The pests have been a nuisance in the foothills for years.
    Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • All of us who live here pretty much have views of the foothills.
    Allen Pierleoni, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
  • Griffler’s plane towed us high above the foothills on a thin gray rope.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • One is the charming pueblo in foothills lined with neat rows of agave cactus.
    Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • While the men head to the foothills, the women will ride through the Delta.
    Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 16 May 2018
  • Three fires burned in the foothills, and sadly, a life was lost, and homes were destroyed.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Now this Eagle foothills winery is for sale.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Some of these may spill westward and affect the foothill areas.
    oregonlive, 6 June 2023
  • This river is bringing down all the quartz and granite from the foothills.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • Lo asked from the doorway of his home in the east San Jose foothills.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 26 May 2024
  • Denise’s family was out on a foothill in a large, modern ranch house.
    Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The country was poised at the foothill of a record spike in infections and deaths.
    USA Today, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Plus, its foothills are prone to wildfires during the summer months.
    Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • The picturesque site was nestled between the sea, a stream and some foothills.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • The crowded city sits in a valley in the Himalayan foothills.
    Bloomberg.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • In the foothills, its conditions are harsher.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
  • Some remote villages on the foothills of the mountain have been hard to access.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Piñon trees — the hardy pine of New Mexico — line the foothills.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • This is an oral history in the sense that foothills are made of feet, or that a tiger shark is part tiger, part shark.
    Jim McLauchlin, WIRED, 12 June 2018
  • More than spring flowers are blooming along the slopes of the Sierra foothills.
    Mike Dunne, sacbee, 9 May 2018
  • Strongest winds will occur below the foothills of the mountains.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Lake Marie is a gem of a pond tucked in a valley in the Bay Area foothills.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Saturday cools slightly, with highs in the low 80s across the foothills.
    Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
  • The storm could drop up to a half-inch or so of rain from the coast to inland foothills and valleys and more in the mountains.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The bigger winter impact will be in the mountains and upper foothills.
    Joe Ruch, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • The roads in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada are fun, and traffic is scarce.
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • That gave the fire its match to spread northward across the Sierra Nevada foothills.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
  • The foothills in the distance become burnished in the golden hour’s fading light.
    Audrey T. Williams, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Colossae, part of the Aegean region, sits in the foothills of Mount Honaz.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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