How to Use foothill in a Sentence

foothill

noun

• 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
• 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 helps connect the house to its location in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 22 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the foothills, many in the mountain town of Three Rivers were ordered to leave as rivers rose while mud and water choked off roads.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
• Set between two rivers in the foothills of the Black Mountains, the town of Montolieu has all the dreamy trappings of French country life.
  — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• While Hilbert described many towering peaks, this turned out to be more of a foothill.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2019
• The experts had arrived at just the right time to catch the whale, recently exposed by the weathering of the foothill.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• Julia Larsen grew up a 40-minute drive from Andrew in a quaint foothills town called Paradise.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
• With foothills rising above, Boise, Idaho is a place of beauty.
  — John Blackstone, CBS News, 2 June 2024
• The forecast is calling for 8 to 16 inches of snow for the Denver metro area, with the highest totals near the foothills and the Palmer Divide.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2024
• The Line fire started Sept. 5, in the foothill city of Highland, in what authorities say was an act of arson.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• This hybrid residence tucked away in the La Crescenta foothills of Los Angeles just so happens to offer the best of both worlds.
  — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024