hillock

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Recent Examples of hillock Around them, the country seems no less fantastical—jagged outcrops of pale rock, rising from low brown hillocks. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025 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 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 See All Example Sentences for hillock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
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
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 brothers grew up on a 160-acre ranch at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.
    Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 28 July 2025
  • In the coastal province of Shandong, flash floods destroyed 19 houses in foothill villages last week, killing two people and leaving 10 more missing, after half a year’s worth of rain fell in five hours overnight.
    Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Try removing the knob and spray some electrical contact cleaner down the shaft of the knob.
    John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Tactile switches, knobs, and handles also help connect Scout drivers with their vehicle.
    Dennis Lewon, Outside Online, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Her $100m pad features a private road connecting the coastal area of Wailea to the uplands of Kula via an inland route.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 July 2025
  • The pygmy rattlesnake is usually found very near water and occasionally in rocky uplands, pine woods and glades.
    Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 13 June 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
  • So did ground vibrations from three B-52s dropping 324 500-pound bombs in the central highlands just to our west.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
  • Next up are the Andean highlands and a stay at a 4,000-acre working ranch, with a hike through pre-Inca ruins to a condor conservation center.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The Beat response reclaimed the mountain as sacred.
    Dennis McNally, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Liberation Peak – a rural map that takes place in the mountains of Tajikistan, with lots of open areas and potential for aerial combat.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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