How to Use knoll in a Sentence

knoll

noun

• The snow was wet and deep, and the tracks of those three wolves were all around on the knoll.
  — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
• In one case, someone built a house on a knoll much above the street.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
• The Aramai people led the way up a steep hill, on a trail that led to a knoll.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Maples and willows form walls on two sides and a knoll rises to the south.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
• The new space includes a stage, a grassy knoll and parking spots for food trucks.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• The knob was a small rocky knoll, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichen.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• The house, built in 1998, sits high on a knoll with panoramic mountain and city views.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
• The half-mile Snake Trail marks the beginning of a mild 650-foot climb up the east flanks of a knoll above the Dry Creek drainage area.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
• Hang out on the grassy knoll and watch passersby or catch the ships and yachts sailing on San Diego Bay.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
• Inside the bowl, arguably the best seats were furthest away in a grassy knoll toward the back end of the venue.
  — Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• Irish Leather by Memo Paris smells like a hike, too, albeit one on a windy, grassy knoll.
  — Jane Larkworthy, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
• And the bell that Mill rang on Tuesday night was the death knoll for my Sixers fandom.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• There are some seats in the front and a large grassy knoll where people sat on picnic blankets in the back.
  — Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• This home is built into the rocks on a small knoll, with its own private stairway on to the beach.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• Walled and gated, the dramatic estate spans 2.65 acres at the top of a knoll.
  — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• The second half of Among Us takes place across the street from the pier on a big, empty grassy knoll in Tongva park.
  — Catherine Womack, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 May 2018
• The largest suite on the property, the prized three-bedroom dwelling sits on a knoll and comes with a kitchen and pantry and a living room.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• In contrast, Nike's photo has no grassy knoll in the foreground.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The big old trees on this knoll were spaced farther apart, and the saplings were fewer and farther between.
  — Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
• The site is on a south-facing slope on a knoll next to tundra and lakes that drain into a river.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2018
• The San Gabriels stood in the distance, a bank of cumulus clouds roiling above while palm trees swayed on a knoll.
  — Davy Rothbart, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• Video from the meet shows Holly start from a grassy knoll and sprint past two other runners on her way to Laney.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• These knolls support forests of beech, maple and oak, as well as a gorgeous strain of native white pine.
  — Kristan Schiller, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The city’s Park Board welcomed a garden for Eden Park, on a high knoll near the old brick water tower.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
• Their dad, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, is standing on the grassy knoll.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• The two sit on a grassy knoll propped up by a rudimentary wooden fence.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Shuster then walked, alone, to a grassy knoll near the curling venue in Gangneung, South Korea.
  — Sean Gregory/gangneung, Time, 24 Feb. 2018
• Soft ridges sloped down to the water in a subtle cascade of rocky knolls and tundra pockets.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• And this is me in shorts and a T-shirt hiding under a blanket sunning on a grassy knoll and my marmot is with me.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• Beavers, quail, and deer, which haven’t been seen in the area in decades, tiptoe through swampy ponds early in the morning, while migratory birds alight overnight on knolls before flying south.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024