hill
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One-hit product wonders have a steep hill to climb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We both live on a farm, and it's a hill farm with lots of sheep, so we need the sheep dogs as every day work," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
It’s also a good way to get daily exercise walking or jogging up the hill beyond school dorms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
We would be trudging up the hill to find the man who threw the switch.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Now, as the fog closed in again and she fumbled for the arrows, she pictured the bear climbing the hill towards her.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Trump is not a fan of Camp David, having visited the presidential bolthole in the scenic Maryland hills near Washington on only a handful of occasions during his two terms in office.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The New Zealand landscape does echo the rolling hills of Central California, in a dry season, but it’s a dreary vision, hardly the paradise of Steinbeck’s memory, book or metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It may become persistent and occasionally heavy, with strong winds and gales for exposed coasts and hills.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Hengyang was a serene location surrounded by hills and lotus ponds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“But every boy in the hills catches things,” I said.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Dusty and weary, but in excellent spirits over the large space that he and the hired man had "hilled up," he went whistling home through the long shadows of the June evening.
From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe
It was better to have possession of the imperial seven hilled city, than of Gethsemane and Calvary with all their holy souvenirs.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
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 Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
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
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
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
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
