knoll
Example Sentences
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From home bakers to professionals, influencers to non-bakers, everyone places their cakes on the tables stretching across the grassy knoll, with Sydney's famed Harbour Bridge as the backdrop.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
For Anderson’s 2007 mad epic, he walked ranches around Marfa, Texas, before deciding on the knoll where the 90-foot oil derrick would go.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
The multicolored toilet had been left in a grassy knoll near an AMC Theatre at the mall, GPD Sgt.
From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2023
Spanning three-quarters of an acre, it’s perched on the edge of a knoll just above the Sunset Strip with virtually nothing obstructing its view of the city.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022
Because he was more used to wood life than tame, he knew when the eyes watching him were Up in a tree, behind a knoll or, like this, at ground level.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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