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Recent Examples of hillock
Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
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The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hillock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
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As visitors like Fulkerson settled into folding chairs arranged along the same grassy knoll where John Brown and his followers fought their way into the red-brick armory, Kerwin rose, stepped to the microphone and looked out at the crowd gathered before her.
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About a mile north of Hereford High School on York Road is a grassy knoll rolling down to the Gunpowder River.
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Visitors can pair the park with a stop along the American River or a drive through nearby foothill towns.
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The heat will also impact Sacramento, Modesto, Merced, Fresno and surrounding foothill communities.
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The knob controls volume and can be clicked to pause and resume content (double- or triple-clicking skips and reverses songs, respectively).
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Your left hand gets a 7-bar pad with 14 customizable assignments, while your right hand uses a pick-style strum knob with a dynamic up-down response.
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With seven miles of shoreline, the 892-acre park has plenty of space to explore tidal wetlands interspersed with farmland and upland forests.
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This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.
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After Mike Piazza’s towering fly ball settled into the web of Bernie Williams’s mitt to finish off yet another save for Mariano Rivera, Roger, needing only his twinkly eminence as a press pass, led the way to the champagne shower in the Yankees locker room.
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Emery’s eminence in Europe has been predicated on managing two-legged contests, knowing that the pace and rhythm is different.
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The Simbari people of Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands separate boys from their mothers around the age of nine.
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The Macallan Importantly, this is the first time that Macallan fans will be able to have this type of experience without going through global travel retail or venturing into the heart of the remote Scottish highlands.
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Sometimes finding the right trees can be an adventure, hiking into forests and mountains to find the oldest trees, patriarchs that hold centuries of information.
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And in the agricultural fields, and in the mountain towns, and in the Sahara.
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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