hill
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If the language of the text message is ambiguous, lacks intent, or could be referring to any number of transactions, you would have a steep hill to climb.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Still, what seemed to move him most was that the celebration would reach beyond the museum on the hill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"I've been on this hill from I was 10 years of age, it means something to me. It means a lot to my constituents here in Upper Bann," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The hill we live on, as we say in Connecticut, is “walk to town,” which means I can get to a grocery store and commuter rail no matter how much snow without using my car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
I jog the half mile to Overlook Drive, where there are never many cars but there’s a nice long hill I can run up and down.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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On Monday, firefighters were working to wash streaks of pink fire retardant off the streets and finish building containment lines around the charred hills between San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Widespread gusts of 50-60mph are likely with 70mph possible for exposed coasts and hills around the middle of the day.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Some migrants fled into nearby hills to avoid being put on buses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Stryker armored combat vehicles rolled down the hills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The sun was setting behind the brilliant green hills of the Andean countryside.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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This frame is placed with the small end down at the point where the seeds are to be planted, and the earth is hilled up about it and firmly packed with the feet.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Phoenix like symbol of the departed soul, he soars into the sky, and the seven hilled city throbs with pride, reverberating the shouts of her people.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
I think I hilled those spuds, too, with furrows—or a crop of Indian corn I put in later on.
From Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson
And when he was come to behold the land, he let make above the table of silver a chest of gold and of precious stones, that hilled the Holy Vessel.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
The corn, as soon as shot out of the earth, is weeded: when it mounts up, and its stalks are an inch big, it is hilled, to secure it against the wind.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
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
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
In hilling trees, pains should be taken not to leave deep holes, from which the earth was dug, close to the tree, for water collects in them.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
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