hilly
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While half-hour runs and swims registered fine, it consistently failed to recognize short but vigorous 20-minute walks and my 40-minute, hilly bike commute to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
In a hilly village northwest of Budapest, siblings Andras and Blanka Arki have brought a bag of plastic containers and bottles to fill up at a roadside water cart in scorching 41C heat.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The film revels in languid establishing shots of the Santa Clara Valley, with the hilly Diablo Range in the background.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
He has started searching out lighter hauls and avoiding hilly routes that guzzle fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
In hillier areas, landslides destroyed roads and bridges collapsed.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2023
Walkers who take the hillier route to the left will pass Serra’s “Contour 290,” a towering 2004 steel twist that curves around a grove of trees.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
It’s a lot hillier than it looks in a Masters broadcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
A much larger group of common whites, many of them poor ex-servants, struggled to find their own farms, often in hillier or less fertile districts far from the coast.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Somewhere in the mountains of Virginia, where the road grew narrower and hillier, Maribel complained that her stomach hurt.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
Long nature walks are more my speed, so I took the bionic legs on San Francisco’s hilliest trails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Buses will travel on roads that receive regular treatment and that avoid the county’s hilliest areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
One of the deepest subway stations in one of the hilliest parts of New York City is now home to a subterranean hike.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
So we called around Los Angeles to find the hilliest course with steep and smooth cartpaths, and found Braemar Country Club.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 21, 2018
That Boulogne road is one of the hilliest in France, and Susan was a nailer on hills.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
