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Tono says these communities' traditional practices, known as uma bukit or "hill farming", are rooted in the idea of maintaining balance with nature.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

He encouraged his followers to fill 5-gallon jugs and join him and Joey, a triathlete, for military-style drills on the sand, in the water and up the stairs and adjacent hill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Robert Springall, former assistant vice president for enrollment at Penn State and now a consultant with WittKieffer, an executive search firm, likened the challenge to Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

"One by one, we also climbed out through the driver's side," she said, recounting how she had then scrambled up a hill.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

For a mile the road followed the shore of the lake, then left it to climb a hill.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

A tranquil hanging garden and rolling green hills are mirrored with dreamlike precision on the museum’s curved roof.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

It’s big, too, nearly 10 miles long, and peaky, with some squat concrete buildings up at the crest of one of the hills, and a single telegraph pole.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Gales are expected for exposed coasts and hills in western Scotland.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“When I look at it, I see the hills outside of Wellington or people with moko tattoos—things that just make me instantly think of home.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Glory and Danny borrowed bicycles from the hotel and rode them up and down the hills.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Master of the games of the fair hilled Taillten, King of Tara of a hundred conflicts; Chief of Fodla the noble, Aed of Oileac who died too soon.

From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston

Yas, sah, jes' about the same way, only it has to be hilled higher an' hoed more'n corn.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

There was little work for Paul to do in the village; but he kept their own garden in good trim,—the onion-bed clear of weeds, and the potatoes well hilled.

From Winning His Way by Charles Carleton Coffin

Then were they ware in the wind where came a rich vessel hilled over with red silk, and the vessel landed fast by them.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

They are set at the distance of three or four feet apart, and are hilled, and kept continually free from weeds.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023

At the usual first hilling time, Dowding pulls a little nearby compost around each plant in a minimound, later adding more from the heap as the plants need hilling again.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”

From New York Times ● May 27, 2020

On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

And we all heard him say in reply— "The potatoes need hilling, and then you'll feel like having a dip in the pool."

From The Master of the Inn by Robert Herrick