How To Use Hillock In A Sentence
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The militants first opened fire from the top of a hillock when the jawans were in a regular patrol in the area.
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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.
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Peculiarly shaped rocks and hillocks having striking features lie scattered all over the earth.
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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
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This is the top of Pole Hill, a wooded hillock in Norman Tebbitt's old stomping round of Chingford.
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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
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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
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There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
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For example, the mountain that is little more than a hillock may be climbed in an hour.
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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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All these actions together have helped BT reduce its debt mountain to a small hillock.
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There's graves in yon howf, John, and hillocks o 'green,
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.
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But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Prtorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words --- ` ` Prtorium here, Prtorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade. ''
The Antiquary
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Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins.
GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith
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Hillocks 'wife informed the kirkyaird that the doctor "gied the gudeman an awfu' clearin ', "and that Hillocks" wes keepin' the hoose, "which meant that the patient had tea breakfast, and at that time was wandering about the farm buildings in an easy undress with his head in a plaid.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
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Bisho high-rise buildings dot the horizon and small hillocks surround the village of Masingata, close to King William's Town.
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Thus, not all growth hillocks are growth spirals, however; such hillocks are much less common.
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Around me here the greybearded moss showed silver, streaked with the blue of dark, crushed berries; there heathery hillocks shone red, decked with cowberries as with rosaries of coral. —
Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812
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This has given rise to fears whether the hillock, with many folklores about it, would soon vanish from Muttara.
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The hillocks were twice the men's height and wetter even than the grass.
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His nose was. the same as Daddy's as it aimed at the heavens, his fall lips so beautifully shaped he didn't need to pout to make them sensual, his chin square, strong, clefted, and his chest was beginning to broaden. and there was that hillock of his growing maleness before his strong thighs, beginning to swell.
Flowers In The Attic
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The land is flat, sometimes undulating as old ridge and furrow pasture; the route passes near a trig point on a rare hillock 250 ft high.
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For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
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The columns and wall at the extreme end of the peristyle were a mass of ruins, through the gigantic rents of which loomed a grassy hillock, its sides partially covered with clumps of furze.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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Three Random Words: la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds
French Word-A-Day:
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For three days the heavens descended in a downpour that made the river a roaring torrent and isled the two log houses on their hillocks.
The Emigrant Trail
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To get to the cemetery, Pat and I had to negotiate rivers of mud and hillocks of cows' droppings.
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Numerous examples can be found, from trigonal hillocks on diamonds to pits and highly irregular surfaces on crystals that we are accustomed to seeing in simple planar forms.
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Of these natural hillocks, an illustration is found in the chalk monticle on which Corfe Castle is built.
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Slowly we progress across the crimson lakes of sand, silver pools of sand, enormous hillocks of sand, skirting giant rocks and stubbornly vibrant patches of thorn bush.
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Hillocks's wife informed the kirkyard that the doctor "gied the gudeman an awful 'clearin'," and that Hillocks "wes keepin 'the hoose," which meant that the patient had tea breakfast, and at that time was wandering about the farm buildings in an easy undress, with his head in a plaid.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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The latter, whose site is by far the more picturesque and amene, lay upon a long tongue of land backing the slope of the sea-cliff, and attached to the low whitish hillocks and pitons rising down south.
The Land of Midian
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We passed a dune-buggy station: coffee, snacks and quad-bikes with fat tyres for riders seeking the adrenalin-jolts of roaring up and down the rose-coloured hillocks of sand.
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These hillocks of waste and effete mineral always disfigure the neighborhood of ironmongering towns, and, even after a considerable antiquity, are hardly made decent with a little grass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
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My den was probably a cubbyhole in some hillock or outcropping of rock.
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Once, as he strayed deep in the wood, he came upon a wide glade or laund, with two green hillocks in the middle thereof.
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
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We reached a meadow, a valley amidst hillocks called the Muthankolly Valley.
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Three Random Words: la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds
Dorloter - French Word-A-Day
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The male has a short warble that he often sings from a hillock.
Times, Sunday Times
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One, who was named Musilo, managed to flee to a small kopje or hillock from which he watched the murder.
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No sooner said than done; nor was I long under the bield of a hillock before she appeared at the inn door, looked here and there, and (seeing nobody) set out by a path that led directly seaward, and by which I followed her.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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In the early seventies, aviation throwbacks would haul their rudimentary hang gliders up some remote hillock and leap off.
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But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole.
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A wind swept our hillock from the direction of its far side, where nasty-looking, spiked plants of a nonflowering variety grew.
Sign of Chaos
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Spread over a total area of 40 acres comprising hillocks, undulating vales and also a gurgling stream, the park is now home to almost 40-flora species ranging from Cassia Alata to massanda.
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Corporal Sandercock seated himself leisurably on a hillock of thyme, began to knock out his pipe against the edge of his boot-sole, and suddenly exploded in laughter so violent that he was forced to hold his sides.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist
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In the immediate neighbourhood of Illetzkaya-Zastchita there are two or three gypseous hillocks, and a cavern in one of these is used by the inhabitants as a cellar, having been artificially enlarged for that purpose.
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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A company of Kurushan archers surrounded the small hillock as their warriors ahead of them drew up their shields.
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The hillock in which the cave lies is wooded and beautiful.
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Holes and hillocks everywhere - and because there are few livestock to keep the grass down, waist high paspalum smothers everything.
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This zigzags down to a grassy col, where you should take a path on the right side of the grassy hillock in front of you, taking care not to go too far to the right - because of steep drops down a gully.
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Aerial photography has revealed four later Neolithic cursus monuments converging on the hillock with the monolith, effectively boxing it in.
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The bus stop in her village is a semi circle of paved road girdled by a hillock.
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The Tail Burn cascaded through a landscape strewn with mounds of flood-washed rubble left behind by glacial meltwaters, weathered over ten thousand years into rounded hillocks.
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Hundreds of papyri began to emerge from the hillocks.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The mosquito bite on his leg had swollen into a scarlet hillock.
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What resembles from afar a tarp-covered car turns out, on closer inspection, to be a brown cloth hillock stitched with an abstract topography.
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We passed a dune-buggy station: coffee, snacks and quad-bikes with fat tyres for riders seeking the adrenalin-jolts of roaring up and down the rose-coloured hillocks of sand.
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Pay attention as it cuts its way among the hills that cluster close to the palisades of the Kentucky River, where the countryside begins to undulate, forming a thousand tiny hillocks and dells, all covered with grass picked shaggy by grazing cattle.
Driving directions
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It wound around hillocks and between upthrust boulders, even the trees they passed were mightier of girth.
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He is involved a hillwalking group that calls itself the Hillocks, taking trips in Wicklow and two annual trips to Clifden.
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I think it all goes back to growing up in Nigeria - one day in mid summer, I climbed up a little hillock, more of a mound, I suppose, to get a better view of a coming thunderstorm.
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I breathed deep, taking in the scent of pollen blown from the wild grass, and carried in vaporous clouds over the larger tussocks, past a grazing antelope and onwards over the rolling hillocks as far as we could see.
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First, we found that action potentials in hippocampal neurons were initiated not only at the axon hillock, as in motor neurons, but also at a second site, which we inferred to be the apical dendrites.
Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography
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Lack of a freshwater source or any plant life apart, the only shelter on the whole windswept hillock is dangerously near the tide line, down between jaggy rocks and slippery seaweed deposits.
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Its boiling substance sprayed across the dune beyond, lacquering the metallic hillock.
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We thanked her, entered, and went walking along a smooth road, through open sward, clumps of trees and an occasional piece of artful neglect in the shape of rough hillocks covered with wild shrubs, such as brier and broom.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
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Huge hillocks of yellow foam gathered in every sheltered covelet.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
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One, who was named Musilo, managed to flee to a small kopje or hillock from which he watched the murder.
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But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Praetorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words -- "Praetorium here, Praetorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade.
The Antiquary — Volume 02
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Trekking need not necessarily be in hillocks and mountains.
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I passed by a moor on my left, then a moory hillock on my right; the way was broken and stony; all traces of the good roads of Wales had disappeared; the habitations which I saw by the way were miserable hovels into and out of which large sows were stalking, attended by their farrows.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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She advances over the upland, jumps over the brook, with the aid of her alpenstock, and climbs up the hillock.
When We Dead Awaken
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Sticking up above intervening hillocks and rushes, it was observed over the top of his glasses by the longsighted Mr. Phinn when, accompanied by Thomasina Twitchett, he came nearer to Bottom Bridge.
Scales of Justice
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Giving their father a pleasant surprise, the trio of sisters secured the contract of carting the boulders from a hillock that's being blasted at Vedadri.
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Some hillocks look like peaks in deep brown red stretching high into the sky.
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The Temple of the Sun, where the beauty of Asenath beguiled the Israelite to forget his sale into bondage and banishment, lies in shapeless hillocks, over which canter the mules of dragomen and chatter the tongues of tourists.
Under Two Flags
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On hillocks trailing she-oaks, olives, myrtle and prickly pear, circular ruins rise up, like razed windmills.
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Perched on a hillock and overlooked by the brooding massifs of the western Rif mountains, here you get your first taste of Moroccan geographical realities.
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The path behind them forked off; a small hillock just a short hundred metres away.
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These false eagles most rarely kill any living bird or animal; and their vulture-like, necrophagous habits are very evident to any one who has fallen asleep on the desolate plains of Patagonia, for when he wakes, he will see, on each surrounding hillock, one of these birds patiently watching him with an evil eye: it is a feature in the landscape of these countries, which will be recognised by every one who has wandered over them.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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At the end of the passage, there is a big hillock, under which the first Qing emperor and empress are buried.
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Annulus hillock, the professional career progress that should notice what link ability is him adds cent?
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For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
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For no less than three miles this vast upland of hillocks and brows roll on, serried knolls which appear to stretch onwards into infinity.
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Cadre annulus hillock relieves guard a kind of system that has made cadre appoint.
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The whole ice-pack seemed one vast plain, like a bleak moorland in winter, only with little hillocks of ice here and there called hummocks, for the flat pieces of ice were all frozen hard together, and Ara wondered where "Greenland's icy mountains" had all got to.
Crusoes of the Frozen North
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The humans walked hither, the persons walked thither, Konri eyed the plateau and the hillock, the sun and the eddying stream of back turned life as it crawled into its inner unsounded and compressed, breathless hard-honeycomb gut.
A Portraiture of Circling Back (or Why I Hate Fashist Assholes Like Mohandes Gandhi)
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This can easily be understood, for the magnetician after leaving home is speedily blown over a few hillocks and sastrugi, and, coming to an ice-flat about one hundred and fifty yards wide, swiftly slides over it, alighting at the snow-packed door of his house.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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“Fass,” fiss or fuss; the gem set in a ring; also applied to a hillock rounded en cabochon.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The great forest spread like a pine-sea over the rolling hillocks and thin meadows of the arctic-like spring.
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I clamb up the bank, sat doun on ma doup on a bit hillock, an 'took the leeberty o' lichtin 'ma pipe.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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Corporation registers: Shenzhen horizontal hillock six joint industrial districts.
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The hillock did, indeed, provide a good vantage point as we watched the colourful parade of racing cars haring around the corner in front of us.
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He clomb the hillock and, counting the stools, found them twelve thousand in number; then he mounted the throne which was set on the centre and, seating himself thereon, fell to wondering at the lake and the stools, and he marvelled till drowsiness overcame him and he drops asleep.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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These false eagles rarely kill any living bird or animal; and their vulture-like, necrophagous habits are very evident to any one who has fallen asleep on the desolate plains; for, when he awakes, he will see on each surrounding hillock one of these birds patiently watching him with an evil eye.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Night was nearly there, only a thin ribbon of crimson haze touched the brink of the hillocks.
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One common surface microtopographic feature is a growth hillock, a small mound on a crystal face.
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Out of this flat tropical planisphere rises a series four man-made mountain peaks, each echoed by a ripple of lesser man-made hillocks.
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Le Moulin Rouge is an exotic nightclub situated in Montmartre, a community on the Butte hillock overlooking Paris.
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Strictly speaking this nowhere was situated in a hillock with moor.
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To look out fairly was impossible; for not only was all the lower part of the frame hillocked up like a sandglass, and the sides filled in with dusky plaits, but even in the middle, where some outlook was, it led to very little.
Erema
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One moment demanding a sensitive physicality that eased her down the face of a wave in a sizzle of surf, and the next demanding brute strength to bludgeon her prow into a rising hillock of sloppy green water.
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There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
