How to Use hillock in a Sentence

hillock

noun

• Lawns, hillocks and a central plaza fill the space within the walkway that loops around the park.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Marcus took the gun, aimed it with one hand at a hillock toward the far end of the field, and pulled the trigger.
  — James Pogue, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• A small television was parked in a corner, amidst hillocks of clothes; more clothes hung from pegs on the wall.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 2 May 2017
• The black splotches were raised, like tiny hillocks, and covered in even tinier white stipples.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Beyond the river is the golf course, which stretches into acres of neat hillocks and ponds.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
• The crispy chicken comes next to a hillock of apple-cabbage slaw that’s a little on the bitter side.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 22 Feb. 2018
• Built Wild's climax was a 38-degree hill climb and descent over a 22-foot-high steel hillock.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
• DOC was part of a three-man team that reached S 5 on foot, a grueling hike through 10 miles of boulders and steep hillocks.
  — David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 16 May 2013
• The technique for dealing with whoops is as follows: punch the gas up the micro-hillock to lift the front; let off to let the car float down the other side.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 9 Oct. 2017
• The upstage wall sometimes retracts to expose a grassy hillock with small trees.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
• As Shkvyria places a camera trap on a pine tree near the wolf hillock, Burdo explains.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016
• And during the winter months, he’s had his stick at his side, ready to plunge it into any random hump, hillock or drift.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• The best seats are the ones that hug the open kitchen, where the chefs boil, sauté, and grate hillocks of Parmesan with mesmerizing coordination.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
• The hillock also serves to beckon people from the distance, a head-scratching apparition that pulls you west.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Within the remnants of the warehouse at the west end there’s another unexpected sight — a 9-foot-tall hillock cloaked in lush green grass.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The hillocks that existed back in Yokut Indian days were flattened by a hunk of metal called the Fresno Scraper.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2018
• More on Mission Rock East of the restaurant would be another hillock, this one grassy, spilling down into a rounded lawn of nearly an acre that would hug the curve of the shoreline.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• As he was carried on a stretcher down the hillock of debris, rescuers and spectators broke into cheers and applause.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, Marina Franco and Albinson Linares, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• The $8 million lumpy hillock closed January 9, just six months after opening.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Jan. 2022
• Things picked up as the morning went on, and by mid-afternoon there were strollers taking in the scene, as well as couples and families enjoying the lush grass on green hillocks.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• In his 2005 book The Cosmic Landscape, Susskind contends that our universe is just a hillock in an infinite landscape of universes.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
• This little hillock of oak trees and an open pavilion is one of Baltimore's most quiet and unassuming World War I memorials.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2017
• Its neighboring hillock of garlicky mashed potatoes, laced with the meat’s braising liquid, dwarfed the meat, but that’s a petty quibble with one of Skillets’ tastiest dishes.
  — Andrew Marton, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
• Stretched out on an exercise mat along a row of pink Mexican lilacs at the top of Parvati, a hillock popular with early-morning joggers, Mr. Patil has questions.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• The luggage capacity is slightly reduced by the carpeted hillock behind the rear seats, under which dwell some of the power electronics.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• The design being released this week features several landscaped hillocks — and not just to enhance outward views or deflect incoming winds.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• The inner walls are wide and finely terraced, and theouter ramparts display a generally radial structure of hillocks.
  — Miguel Claro, Space.com, 25 July 2018
• Intermittent rain continued in the region where 19 bodies have been recovered so far after a hillock caved in and buried the railroad project area, Guite told The Associated Press.
  — Wasbir Hussain, ajc, 1 July 2022
• The grassy hillocks are rubble from the powerful Magadha empire, whose kings funded the world’s first Buddhist monasteries, more than two millennia ago.
  — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• Additional enchantments to be seen, left: The Italian console holds a 17th-century model of a basilica, a crystal candelabra, and a hillock of rock crystal.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 9 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024