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hillock

[ UK /hˈɪlək/ ]
[ US /ˈhɪɫək/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small natural hill

How To Use hillock In A Sentence

  • The militants first opened fire from the top of a hillock when the jawans were in a regular patrol in the area.
  • Having maneuvered through the boles of the blue trees of the grove and into the open plain beyond, Saffron and Hawk decided to head off in the direction of a grassy hillock they spotted about a kilometer away.
  • Peculiarly shaped rocks and hillocks having striking features lie scattered all over the earth.
  • Ye 'ill better clear yersel at ony rate, Hillocks, for some o' the neeburs threep (insist) 'at it wes you, and some that it wes yir freend, an' there's ithers declare ye ran in compt (company) like twa dogs worrying sheep; it wes a bonnie like pliskie (escapade) onywy, and hardly fit for an Auld Kirk elder" -- a sally much enjoyed by the audience, who knew that, after Whinnie, Hillocks was the doucest man in Drumtochty. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
  • This is the top of Pole Hill, a wooded hillock in Norman Tebbitt's old stomping round of Chingford.
  • She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
  • In the end I got out from among the houses, and arrived upon the sea-beach, where I discovered a sheltered pit among the sand hillocks, which they call denes, and there I lay down and slept off my weariness. Athelstane Ford
  • There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
  • For example, the mountain that is little more than a hillock may be climbed in an hour.
  • The patch is embanked and frequently inundated, and each plant grows on a small hillock of puddled earth. The Hawaiian Archipelago
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