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Recent Examples of hillock
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
—Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
—Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
See All Example Sentences for hillock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
Noun
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Shots of Roger biking down idyllic Brooklyn streets, grassy knolls in Brooklyn parks and cozy coffee shops and bars on Brooklyn corners are abundant, but beyond that the borough’s depiction leaves viewers wanting.—
Morgan A. Grain,
Essence,
28 Feb. 2025
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Supporters of the two-shooter theory cite eyewitness accounts, forensic evidence, and government documents suggesting gunfire came from the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, not just the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald was stationed.—
Martha McHardy,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2023
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Splurge on a night at Bishop’s Lodge (from $645), a full-service retreat in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristos.—
Megan Michelson,
Outside Online,
26 Feb. 2025
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The foothills of Mount Etna are the source for some wines.—
Florence Fabricant,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Fertility all of a sudden seemed like a knob that governments could turn at will.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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What to look for in a quality shower faucet Components Look for a shower faucet that comes with a diverter, which enables you to redirect the water flow from the spout to the showerhead with a switch or knob.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Instructors will focus on coastal, estuarine, and uplands habitats; coastal plants; and marine invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2025
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The lake came into existence ten thousand years ago when a long upland of ice withdrew.—
Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
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Still, Valéry’s eminence as a modernist is indisputable.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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But Mufasa doesn’t offer the iconic character a story worthy of his eminence.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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The design was born out of founder Coco Chanel’s relationship with the Duke of Westminster: the couple vacationed together in the Scottish highlands, where sportsmen favored suits fashioned out of the woolen knit.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
2 Mar. 2025
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At nine o’clock in the morning, clear sunlight bathes the Potosi highlands in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.—
Marina P. Asins,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2025
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Key Ingredients: Bolivian mountain salt, papaya enzymes, prickly pear extract Best For: Getting rid of scalp build-up, sans residue.—
Arden Fanning Andrews,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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In 2021, more than 200 people died after part of a glacier collapsed in Uttarakhand, carrying a deadly mixture of ice, rock and water that tore through a mountain gorge and crashed through a dam.—
Kathleen Magramo and Esha Mitra,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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