How to Use hilltop in a Sentence

hilltop

noun
  • They built their house on a hilltop.
  • He’s chosen to stay in the hilltop ranch where the shooting took place.
    Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Just northeast of the plaza is a hilltop park with a cross that gets some of the best sunset views in town.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Stay at the hilltop 18 Grapes, with its two pools and views of the sea, or Naxian on the Beach, which has 10 seafront suites.
    Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop sacred to both Jews and Muslims.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • In a corner of the room, away from the windows, the snipers set up a high-powered rifle and pointed the long scope at the hilltop.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • The hilltop lot includes a landscaped front lawn and fenced back lawn and courtyard with grill.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 26 June 2022
  • Airbnb Superhost Take a private tram up to what was once the hilltop home of the one and only John Lennon.
    Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 29 July 2022
  • One of the fires was on the hilltop behind the visitor center, Celino said.
    Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • At the foot of the hilltop sits a swing set containing a mix of standard swing seats and wheelchair swing seats side by side.
    Anthony Cammalleri, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
  • There’s the rundown hilltop cemetery where those Lakota were buried in a yards-long mass grave.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Here's how to see the best of Croatia, from under-the-radar islands to stunning forests and hilltop towns.
    Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Chateau Eza, at the crest of the hilltop on which the town perches—which offers à la carte French and Mediterranean cuisine—gets our vote.
    Nick Scott, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • On a hilltop about 95 miles west of Chicago grow plant species that have been there for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
    Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Jorge Calles stands near the far edge of the dusty hilltop field with a group of older residents, looking down across the lower part of town.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The seven-thousand-square-foot house on the hilltop was demolished.
    Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Their ceremony was on the hilltop overlooking the vines, and there were drinks on the Glasshouse Terrace.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
  • On the quiet hilltop where the child is buried, her resting place has never been forgotten.
    Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • On changeover days, one parent dropped him off in the morning at the hilltop campus overlooking the bay, and the other picked him up in the afternoon.
    Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The forested hilltop was visible from a great distance, and its subcamps were spread around the region.
    John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Makeshift antennae were thrown up on hilltops to link the various parts of the British Isles to the central broadcast unit in London.
    Alan Cowell, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • The Neo-Georgian mansion that currently sits on the hilltop was built in 2012 and has seven bedrooms and seven-and-a-half baths.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Money aside, Rybicki said the hilltop is simply not suitable for the project.
    John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • First, the species seems to live only on two forested submontane hilltops in the southern Bahia region of Brazil.
    Grrlscientist, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • On the Mexican side of the wall, Jim could see scouts for the cartel perched on hilltops and another group of migrants getting ready to cross.
    Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The hilltop home features two bedrooms and two bathrooms and has stunning mountain views.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • King walked me up to a barn high on a hilltop, next to a bright yellow farmhouse with a manicured lawn that looks back toward the mainland and its rolling shore.
    Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Next on the agenda was a day trip to the Tibidabo amusement park, where Bianka and Capri spent time on some rides and ate some snacks at the hilltop destination.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • If finding indoor shelter is not an option: • Steer clear of open fields, hilltops, or ridge tops.
    Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Blinds can also work well around strut zones in the timber, such as open, mature hardwood hilltops or on logging roads.
    Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2023

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