How to Use hillside in a Sentence

hillside

noun
  • Streams of rainwater rushed down the hillside.
  • With a hillside ordinance and a chain of lakes, there is a finite amount of space left to build new housing.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • In one place, the river had changed course and flowed directly beneath where the road had run along a steep canyon hillside.
    Fox News, 17 June 2022
  • There are peaked-roof buildings dotting the grounds, orderly rows of sprouting crops stretching up the hillside, and sheep and cows ambling about.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 13 June 2022
  • In the distance, vineyards spooled down the hillside as guests trickled in from TRX and spin classes.
    Kelley Manley, ELLE, 14 June 2022
  • My villa is one of just 16, all roughly similar in layout and size, dotting the jungled hillside the resort is perched on.
    Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 21 June 2022
  • Von Furstenberg would hike up the jagged hillside to see Vidal when her yacht sailed along the Amalfi Coast in the summer.
    Christopher Bollen, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
  • One of the great free things to do in Houston with kids, catch a family-friendly show on the hillside with a picnic or relax under the covered pavilion.
    Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 8 June 2022
  • Certain hillside slopes/medians in the city and our oldest neighborhoods need landscaping; even the post office needs updating.
    Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In Costa Rica, some properties straddle the line between hillside and beachfront.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2022
  • Andreas Frank watched from the second story of his ridge-top Laguna Niguel home as the hillside below began to smolder.
    Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
  • The back of the house opens to a flat, grassy yard notched into the hillside.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2023
  • These plants’ roots grow deep and wide, to hold the hillside in place.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The house is on the edge of a hillside in a yard grown high with grass and flowers.
    cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Since April of last year, rows of new graves have crept up the hillside, more than 417 in all.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Go down the hillside here, in the direction of the wide trail below.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The area is known for sizable hillside plots of land and stately homes.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The bonus, as golfers of all ages have learned, is the views that hillside and canyon courses offer.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The hillside is planted in pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
  • Once the hillside home was vacant, Pickart was ready to take on a new challenge.
    Claire Brito, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
  • The men sleep in private cabins that zigzag up a hillside.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The hillside is planted in Pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
    oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Rocks and a drainage culvert were added at the base of the slope, and the hillside was graded and covered with plastic tarps.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Hundreds of his goats were left behind on the hillside.
    Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The hillside collapsed during heavy rains in April 2023.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The police found Banuelos sitting on the hillside, not far from a bloody knife.
    Thomas Lake, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • O’Brien said the aircraft missed a condo complex and hit a hillside.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Miller lives in a home built on a hillside near Todd, north of Boone, with her autistic son and baby.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The van weaved through the mountainous Highlands, glassy lakes, and frosty hillsides.
    Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
  • Frontier plans to keep off wetlands to the west, and to the north, a hillside would screen the development from Sprague.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022

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