hillock

Definition of hillocknext

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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
  • Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Moose were plentiful, feeding and resting on grassy knolls.
    Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 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
  • Yuba County faces a range of natural disaster threats, including flooding near the Feather and Yuba rivers and wildfire danger in surrounding foothill communities.
    Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Mendoza is a destination that attracts true wine lovers with a taste for adventure, seeking to plunge into the depths of flavor Argentine wines are known for and venture to visit the gauchos in the foothills, where savory smoke billows from meat-laden asados.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Model weights are sets of parameters, like knobs and dials in a machine, telling the models how to process information.
    Huo Jingnan, NPR, 31 May 2026
  • Wring the cloth and wipe cabinet fronts, paying special attention to areas around the knobs.
    Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 May 2026
  • Today, the uplands are so broadly sunlit that most analysts say future interest rate cuts from the Fed are now likely pushed off into the far distance.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 11 May 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
  • West Highland Way, Scotland — Easy village-to-village walking through the western highlands.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • Beauchamp tripping back in time, lost and separated in the highlands of 18th century Scotland.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • The best treks were clustered in the Greater Caucasus mountains, not far from the Russian border.
    Lori Rackl, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • Many of the rooms at this ultra-luxe hideaway dangle from rocky ledges, are sandwiched between cliff crevices or are embedded like caves in the interior of the mountains, connecting guests intimately with the landscape.
    Lauren Keith, Robb Report, 30 May 2026

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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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