How to Use hilltop in a Sentence
hilltop
noun- They built their house on a hilltop.
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Sliding doors open to a deck and level yard and there are two patios with hilltop views.
— oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020 -
The wreckage of the plane was resting below a flat hilltop, its nose crashed through a wall.
— Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2020 -
From hilltop hot tub cabins to luxe, modernist villas, there’s sure to be something for everyone below.
— Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2024 -
Lehne this week was visiting his summer home in the Italian hilltop town of Orvieto.
— Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020 -
Others, including a pair holding 19-year-old twins, ended up buried on a Kabul hilltop.
— Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020 -
Known as Solana, the roughly 11-acre estate sits on a hilltop overlooking Santa Barbara.
— Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020 -
Meanwhile, for the first time, whistle-blowers publicly raised questions about the safety of Parcel A, the shipyard’s hilltop housing area.
— Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2020 -
Its shimmering lakes, ancient forests and craggy hilltops inspired his work throughout his life, and the region's timeless beauty continues to draw visitors today.
— Natasha Langan, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024 -
The members of the Guard stood up and moved to a hilltop.
— New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021 -
He’s chosen to stay in the hilltop ranch where the shooting took place.
— Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024 -
And for heaven’s sake, don’t stand on a hilltop and glass.
— Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 25 Jan. 2021 -
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 -
The hilltop site is holy to both Muslims and Jews and has been a flashpoint for decades.
— Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022 -
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 -
The house sits on a hilltop near the town of Fayence, overlooking acres of flower fields.
— Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024 -
Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop sacred to both Jews and Muslims.
— Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023 -
On a low hilltop, small headstones barely peak above the grass in the oldest part of the cemetery.
— Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020 -
One idea Garcetti threw out: a hilltop reign at Griffith Park.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020 -
The main town is built on a hilltop, the houses scrunched together.
— Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022 -
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 -
But on the pitching hilltop, his gaze is lethal, as were his splitters.
— Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 -
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 -
The largest, 22 feet tall, sits on a hilltop above the old post office, a historic church and a museum.
— Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020 -
One of the fires was on the hilltop behind the visitor center, Celino said.
— Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022 -
The most kid-friendly trek in this sector is the Long Point Trail, an easy 1.6-mile stroll to a hilltop overlook of both bridge and gorge.
— Mark Johanson, CNN, 31 May 2021 -
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 -
People who had gathered on the hilltop to watch the smoke quickly grew frantic and rushed back to their homes.
— New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021 -
There’s the rundown hilltop cemetery where those Lakota were buried in a yards-long mass grave.
— Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
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