How to Use hillock in a Sentence
hillock
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Lawns, hillocks and a central plaza fill the space within the walkway that loops around the park.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
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Marcus took the gun, aimed it with one hand at a hillock toward the far end of the field, and pulled the trigger.
—James Pogue, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
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A small television was parked in a corner, amidst hillocks of clothes; more clothes hung from pegs on the wall.
—Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 2 May 2017
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Beyond the river is the golf course, which stretches into acres of neat hillocks and ponds.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
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The crispy chicken comes next to a hillock of apple-cabbage slaw that’s a little on the bitter side.
—James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 22 Feb. 2018
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Built Wild's climax was a 38-degree hill climb and descent over a 22-foot-high steel hillock.
—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
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DOC was part of a three-man team that reached S 5 on foot, a grueling hike through 10 miles of boulders and steep hillocks.
—David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 16 May 2013
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The technique for dealing with whoops is as follows: punch the gas up the micro-hillock to lift the front; let off to let the car float down the other side.
—Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 9 Oct. 2017
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The upstage wall sometimes retracts to expose a grassy hillock with small trees.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
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As Shkvyria places a camera trap on a pine tree near the wolf hillock, Burdo explains.
—National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016
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And during the winter months, he’s had his stick at his side, ready to plunge it into any random hump, hillock or drift.
—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
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The best seats are the ones that hug the open kitchen, where the chefs boil, sauté, and grate hillocks of Parmesan with mesmerizing coordination.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
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The hillock also serves to beckon people from the distance, a head-scratching apparition that pulls you west.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
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Within the remnants of the warehouse at the west end there’s another unexpected sight — a 9-foot-tall hillock cloaked in lush green grass.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
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The hillocks that existed back in Yokut Indian days were flattened by a hunk of metal called the Fresno Scraper.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2018
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More on Mission Rock East of the restaurant would be another hillock, this one grassy, spilling down into a rounded lawn of nearly an acre that would hug the curve of the shoreline.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
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As he was carried on a stretcher down the hillock of debris, rescuers and spectators broke into cheers and applause.
—Elisabeth Malkin, Marina Franco and Albinson Linares, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
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The $8 million lumpy hillock closed January 9, just six months after opening.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Jan. 2022
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Things picked up as the morning went on, and by mid-afternoon there were strollers taking in the scene, as well as couples and families enjoying the lush grass on green hillocks.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
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In his 2005 book The Cosmic Landscape, Susskind contends that our universe is just a hillock in an infinite landscape of universes.
—John Horgan, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
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This little hillock of oak trees and an open pavilion is one of Baltimore's most quiet and unassuming World War I memorials.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2017
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Its neighboring hillock of garlicky mashed potatoes, laced with the meat’s braising liquid, dwarfed the meat, but that’s a petty quibble with one of Skillets’ tastiest dishes.
—Andrew Marton, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
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Stretched out on an exercise mat along a row of pink Mexican lilacs at the top of Parvati, a hillock popular with early-morning joggers, Mr. Patil has questions.
—New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
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The luggage capacity is slightly reduced by the carpeted hillock behind the rear seats, under which dwell some of the power electronics.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
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The design being released this week features several landscaped hillocks — and not just to enhance outward views or deflect incoming winds.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
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The inner walls are wide and finely terraced, and theouter ramparts display a generally radial structure of hillocks.
—Miguel Claro, Space.com, 25 July 2018
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Intermittent rain continued in the region where 19 bodies have been recovered so far after a hillock caved in and buried the railroad project area, Guite told The Associated Press.
—Wasbir Hussain, ajc, 1 July 2022
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The grassy hillocks are rubble from the powerful Magadha empire, whose kings funded the world’s first Buddhist monasteries, more than two millennia ago.
—Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
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Additional enchantments to be seen, left: The Italian console holds a 17th-century model of a basilica, a crystal candelabra, and a hillock of rock crystal.
—Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 9 Apr. 2021
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