hills
Example Sentences
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Behrends, who lives nearby, said the desert hills are so quiet that some residents leave their homes unlocked, and the most excitement they see is wildlife, including rattlesnakes and wild javelina pigs.
Which of their children would get the land with the hills, and which would get the most productive ground?
The title of Mr. Dikötter’s book is, of course, a play on Snow’s, whose effort is, “at heart, a romantic tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom.”
There were hills made entirely of black grass.
From Literature
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“The buildings are beautiful. There are so many hills, there were people running, it was a very active city. It felt like, I’d not known this about San Francisco.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.