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 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 Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock. Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 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
  • As the foothills of the Himalayas, the region’s potential for hydroelectric power was unparalleled.
    Bridget Crocker June 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
  • More than an inch of rain is possible in some areas, including the foothills of Jefferson County and south metro Denver into the Palmer Divide, while neighborhoods north of Denver will see lighter rain.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Shower flooring must be non-slip and shower knobs should be at wheelchair height.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
  • Protect Hardware When Painting Painting can result in a real mess when stray streaks and drips land on handles, knobs, and pulls.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 25 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Last Nomads In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.
    The Dial, The Dial, 22 May 2025
  • Shepherd spent most of her life near the Cairngorm mountains of the Scottish highlands, exploring the flora and fauna of the rugged hills as often as possible.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Fast-forward to Paradise, where a dystopian community has been built beneath a mountain in Colorado in preparation for an apocalyptic disaster.
    Hilton Dresden, HollywoodReporter, 7 June 2025
  • The Darjeeling Limited underscores the folly of these men riding the rails with mountains of literal and metaphorical baggage in tow, and how the country humbles them before any healing can begin.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025

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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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