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knoll

[nohl] / noʊl /


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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

During the afternoon, we sprawled out on a grassy knoll by the beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Beneath a standing canopy of western red cedar on a shady knoll near the entrance to the property, the Renaissance Garden references the tribe’s relatively brief history with the lumber mill in Port Gamble.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023

With treelike structures, a green knoll and overhead chimes incorporating colorful carved birds, the 3,500-square-foot space exposes young minds to art’s most fundamental ingredients: materials.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

He was standing on a knoll and pointing to the right.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Homeless people live in or around the park, many sleeping on the grassy knolls by the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

Iowa at the time, Mr. Hill said, would have been a “parkland,” with patches of trees mixed in with grassy knolls.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Three zebras have been frocklicking through the lush, grassy knolls of Prince George’s County, Maryland, since the end of August.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2021

At one point, more than 200 weather-beaten tents had sprouted along the sand and grassy knolls that run between the bike path and Ocean Front Walk, the concrete boardwalk.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

She was a woman who had known desire, and who had danced upon the knolls by Lake Champlain.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Spreads in their 160-page book show some outfits knolled from hat to scarf to shoes to handbag, alongside sketches from the Mattel archives and drawings by the film’s costume designers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024

"If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church."

From The Setons by O. Douglas

Mountain after mountain ranged in the distance, some with rounded or knolled heads, others rising to a peak.

From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Margaret Arndt

O Mary! this is the land of congyration — The bell knolled when we were there — I saw lights, and heard lamentations.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the direction of the Mexican quarter, the bell of the cathedral knolled at intervals.

From Blix by Frank Norris

The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departing friend.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Seventy-three bells in chromatic diapason—with their tinkling, ringing, tolling, knolling peal!

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“And his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell Remembered knolling a departing friend.”

From Old Church Lore by William Andrews

"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend."

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern




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