How to Use foothill in a Sentence

foothill

noun

• While the men head to the foothills, the women will ride through the Delta.
  — Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 16 May 2018
• Lo asked from the doorway of his home in the east San Jose foothills.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 26 May 2024
• The roads in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada are fun, and traffic is scarce.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
• Piñon trees — the hardy pine of New Mexico — line the foothills.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• The country was poised at the foothill of a record spike in infections and deaths.
  — USA Today, 30 Oct. 2020
• Three fires burned in the foothills, and sadly, a life was lost, and homes were destroyed.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2024
• The hunter-gatherers lived in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, around 1,200 miles east of the cave.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• On the drive up, S. takes some photos of the new fire burning in the foothills above downtown.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2024
• The picturesque site was nestled between the sea, a stream and some foothills.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• Her body was found on Nov. 18 – covered by black plastic bags in a ditch near a lake in the foothills of the Alps.
  — Giada Zampano, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2023
• This river is bringing down all the quartz and granite from the foothills.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
• This helps connect the house to its location in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 22 July 2023
• The mountain town of Caroga Lake, set in the Adirondack foothills, is a 15-minute drive south.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
• The storm could drop up to a half-inch or so of rain from the coast to inland foothills and valleys and more in the mountains.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
• The cats reside in an area that spans from the foothills of the Himalayas to the islands of Sumatra to Borneo.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 13 Nov. 2019
• The payoff at the summit is a former fire lookout with a world-class view across the foothills and to the Marin coast.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• The center is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains about 80 miles west of uptown Charlotte.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 9 July 2018
• That gave the fire its match to spread northward across the Sierra Nevada foothills.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
• The lower mountains and foothills of the Green Mountain range served as the backdrop to the rural scenery.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Welcome to the Arctic Plain’ On the seventh morning the last foothills bow out.
  — Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• The Santa Anas can gust 50 mph to 70 mph in some inland valleys and foothills.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
• Southerly winds of 10-15 mph through the valley and portions of foothills will keep things cool.
  — Julia Sclafani, sacbee, 3 July 2018
• Winds in the valleys are forecast to be light, but heading up to the foothills there is a good chance of gusts over 35 mph.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• Some remote villages on the foothills of the mountain have been hard to access.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
• Snow will be more prominent north of Wilsonville and along the Coast Range, foothills and Cascades.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2020
• Some of these may spill westward and affect the foothill areas.
  — oregonlive, 6 June 2023
• This is an oral history in the sense that foothills are made of feet, or that a tiger shark is part tiger, part shark.
  — Jim McLauchlin, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• Some of the higher foothills could see snow showers in the afternoon.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
• Two French cyclists died last week, one of whom was competing in a race at the foothills of the Pyrenees.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, WIRED, 3 July 2019
• The site is in the foothills of the Andes and represents one of the more biodiverse regions on the planet.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024