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 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 See All Example Sentences for hillock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
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
  • Bubble Inn housed many of the youngest girls at Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old haven tucked in the foothills of Texas’ Hill Country.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
  • Aged in the Himalayan foothills, Rampur’s whisky reflects a unique, cooler microclimate.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The handle has a gentle curve and an extra knob towards the brush head to give you better leverage when cleaning.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 July 2025
  • Perhaps a new knob here, a new guard there, but nothing revolutionary.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • It's really based on our Hacienda, which is where all of our tequila is made in the highlands of Jalisco in Mexico.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • Over in San Miguel de Allende—the No. 1 city this year according to readers, that's roughly 3.5 hours northeast in the highlands of Guanajuato—WBA voters praised two hotels that imbue the guest experience with true Mexican culture at every turn.
    Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • For the second time in a week, someone has died visiting a waterfall in the North Carolina mountains, searchers say.
    Mark Price Updated July 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2025
  • Tennessee is filled with mountain towns that promise scenic views, Southern charm, and plenty of outdoor adventure, but not all of them require you to elbow through crowds on the main strip.
    Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025

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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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