hillock

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Recent Examples of hillock Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons. The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025 From just over a nearby hillock, a howl floated back. Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025 With the Sayre’s prime setting on a hillock, guests have a clear view of the intact former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces a few miles away. John Oseid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025 There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight. Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hillock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
Noun
  • As the surfing continued, vendors set up booths on the grassy knoll just off the beach, Hodad’s sold burgers from a portable outdoor kitchen and skater dudes built ramps in the beach parking lot for the Sunday skateboarding competition.
    Tony Le Calvez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • All the intricate meetings and rolling knolls, all the reliable critiques of the kids today, have left this former student in the ranking spirit.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
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
  • Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • If Denver was a foothill, San Antonio is a mountain.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Scattered snow that started on Wednesday in Colorado’s mountains and foothills will become widespread on Thursday and continue into Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Swap out old knobs and handles for brass ones to add a sophisticated, elegant touch.
    Farima Ferguson, The Spruce, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In older homes, Reiner warns that outdated materials like aluminum or knob-and-tube wiring can be fire hazards, too, and may even prevent a home from being insured or financed.
    Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona encompasses 278 miles of the Colorado River and neighboring uplands, according to the National Park Service.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • New law affect the use of cellular trail cameras, drones, and thermals for hunting big game and upland birds for part of the year.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Emery’s eminence in Europe has been predicated on managing two-legged contests, knowing that the pace and rhythm is different.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter defend their ancestral land from becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of past violence.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • Similarly, crew members also took field trips to such locations as the Kamestastin Impact Crater in Labrador, Canada and the Icelandic highlands.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • By 1890, the population of Los Angeles had nearly quintupled, and land speculation in the city’s outlying areas, from the coast to the mountains, was rampant.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • South Dakota Custer State Park Resort, Custer Four historic lodges plus a variety of cabins nestle among 71,000 acres of mountains at Custer State Park.
    Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026

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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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