hilly
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“In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are potentially dangerous in heavy rain,” the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Residents should "move away from the shore, either by going more than two kilometres inland or by moving up into hilly areas more than 10 meters high," he told local broadcaster Kompas TV.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
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
In the fall of 1994, Morrie came to the hilly Brandeis campus to teach his final college course.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
Hydrants functioned at lower elevations, but in hillier areas like the Palisades Highlands — where the storage tanks hold water that flows by gravity to communities below — they ran dry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
In hillier areas, landslides destroyed roads and bridges collapsed.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2023
At least an inch and a half of rain fell in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, while amounts reached 3 to 6 inches in some of the hillier terrain in Northern California.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
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
Starting from the sandy southern point, the island grew wider and greener and hillier until it finally jutted up into the rocky cone of the mountain.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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
