hillside

Example Sentences

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The traditional 1950 home came with mature tropical plants in the back and a sprawling grass hillside lawn in front, and it suited them just fine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

In the local hospital, a modest building nestled within the hillside town's trees and high grass, healthcare workers are rinsing both floor and walls with a chlorine solution.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

The site, forever linked to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, is built into a hillside with a split-level design.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein