hillock

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Recent Examples of hillock An amalgamation of Hindu and Mughal architectural styles, Amer is perched atop a hillock surrounded by several other ancient structures and historic landmarks. Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025 The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety. Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock. Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock. Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for hillock
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Noun
  • The burden of your inquiry into this wrongful closure should rest squarely on the wrongdoer’s shoulders, not on those of the innocent public trying to access their beloved knoll.
    Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
  • In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.
    Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.
    Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
Noun
  • The areas of highest concern include fire zones 215 through 219, 263 and 279 — encompassing much of the Sacramento Valley and nearby foothill regions.
    Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2025
  • Bear Creek Stables fundraising Friends of Bear Creek Stables have are more than a third of the way to their fundraising goal toward maintaining the stables in the Los Gatos foothills.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The on/off lever, complete with a cherry red knob, adds a burst of contrast to the otherwise monochrome frame.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 20 June 2025
  • Clean the base of the toilet that is on the floor and all the knobs, too.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • With seven miles of shoreline, the 892-acre park has plenty of space to explore tidal wetlands interspersed with farmland and upland forests.
    Simon Davidson, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2025
  • This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Thanks to courses in communication studies, students are schooled in the evolving business models of the creative industries, and dive into allyship and advocacy through sound studies and the school’s eminence in audiology.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Last Nomads In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.
    The Dial, The Dial, 12 June 2025
  • The murine rodent lives in the region’s remote, steep highlands at elevations around 12,000 feet.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • It’s all set against a classic American backdrop of diner counters and truck stops, East Coast turnpike exits and snow-tipped Montana mountains.
    Rachel Brodsky, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Erick spent the day dragging through the coastal mountain range, dropping torrential quantities of rain.
    Luis Alberto Cruz, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025

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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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