1
as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
the ants made little hills of dirt
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2
as in mounds
an area of high ground
a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills
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as in inclines
an upward slope
I got stuck behind a truck going up a hill in a no-passing zone
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as in banks
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze
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Recent Examples of hills
Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
The incident on Saturday morning began when Oakland police were called about person who had broken into a home on the 11000 block of Ettrick Street, in a hills neighborhood near the Oakland Zoo.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
This quintessential coastline is as much ingrained in the city’s DNA as are its famous hills and iconic boulevards.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
The pastel buildings stacked up those hills, fado music spilling out of tiny bars at night, people who actually seem happy to help when you’re lost, were my beautiful introduction.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
Palazzo Farnese is a 16th-century palace in the green hills of the Cimini Mountains that seems to rise from the volcanic rock itself.
—Fulvio De Bonis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
The kitchen, designed by ArcLinea of Milan, is fully kitted out with top-tier appliances, an 80-bottle wine fridge, a second fireplace, and a sunny breakfast room overlooking the rolling hills.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
Robinson reportedly ran hills during the offseason to get ready for the new season.
—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The success of Marchita brought the kind of opportunities that Estrada — the daughter of luthiers from the verdant hills of Coatepec, Veracruz — had dreamed of just a few years earlier.
—Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
The incident on Saturday morning began when Oakland police were called about person who had broken into a home on the 11000 block of Ettrick Street, in a hills neighborhood near the Oakland Zoo.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
This quintessential coastline is as much ingrained in the city’s DNA as are its famous hills and iconic boulevards.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
The pastel buildings stacked up those hills, fado music spilling out of tiny bars at night, people who actually seem happy to help when you’re lost, were my beautiful introduction.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
Palazzo Farnese is a 16th-century palace in the green hills of the Cimini Mountains that seems to rise from the volcanic rock itself.
—Fulvio De Bonis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
The kitchen, designed by ArcLinea of Milan, is fully kitted out with top-tier appliances, an 80-bottle wine fridge, a second fireplace, and a sunny breakfast room overlooking the rolling hills.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
Robinson reportedly ran hills during the offseason to get ready for the new season.
—Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The success of Marchita brought the kind of opportunities that Estrada — the daughter of luthiers from the verdant hills of Coatepec, Veracruz — had dreamed of just a few years earlier.
—Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hills
Noun
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Dampwood termites are found in logs, fence posts, and utility poles; damp wood termites are attracted to firewood piles and water leaks such as from water pipes and AC units.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 Oct. 2025
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Some stars collapsed to the sea floor, dissolved into piles of goo.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Some shells are soft, and others are hard with spikes or mounds.—
Kate Siber,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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Archaeologists furthermore explained that, in this region, specifically, the burial mounds tend to harken back to pre-Roman traditions, which might suggest a meeting between Celtic and Roman cultures.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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View gallery - 6 images Californian e-mobility outfit Viribus has launched a new electric trike family, with tasty specs like a 1,200-W peak motor on offer for pedaling or throttling up inclines, as well as dual shocks, rear differential, and a two-step folding design.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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Many of the bed frames in this list have customizable elevations, typically reaching around 45-degree inclines.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Lyra’s world has a cozy, Miyazaki, my-favorite-things feeling, with its narrow lanes, gleaming clockwork, teetering stacks of books, crashing thunderstorms, and, oh God, those brown-paper packages tied up with string!—
Lev Grossman,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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Its open door, facing the dwelling, revealed stacks of wood inside.—
Ingfei Chen,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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A lot of the smaller towns, like Huntington, have beautiful views of the mountains and leaves but lack the infrastructure to deal with the influx of people.—
Kailey Schuyler,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The New York Times reported on Mangione's travels through Asia, including in Thailand and the mountains of Japan in the spring on 2024.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Reassuringly, Pies crunched the numbers on what followed past such streaks, and concludes that such calm ascents rarely come at the very end of a bull market.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
18 Oct. 2025
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These expeditions wait for the best windows of calm weather to push for the summit, and their ascents are usually slowed by bottlenecks and congestion.—
Ben Ayers,
Outside,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The alum then clumps the smaller, suspended fats together for easy removal.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Hills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hills. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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