How to Use hillside in a Sentence

hillside

noun
  • Streams of rainwater rushed down the hillside.
  • The back of the house opens to a flat, grassy yard notched into the hillside.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Grab a spot on the hillside, take in the cityscape below and let the tears flow.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2022
  • These plants’ roots grow deep and wide, to hold the hillside in place.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • This is footage of the house and hillside that slid at 2400 block of Perkins Ln.
    — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The house is on the edge of a hillside in a yard grown high with grass and flowers.
    — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Since April of last year, rows of new graves have crept up the hillside, more than 417 in all.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Go down the hillside here, in the direction of the wide trail below.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Part of the road is at risk of slipping down a hillside and one lane was closed in 2018.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Maksim breaks away from his stare, turns to the hillside.
    — Paul Yoon, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The area is known for sizable hillside plots of land and stately homes.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The bonus, as golfers of all ages have learned, is the views that hillside and canyon courses offer.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The hillside is planted in pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
  • The living room opens to a deck that takes in green belt, hillside and treetop views.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Once the hillside home was vacant, Pickart was ready to take on a new challenge.
    — Claire Brito, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
  • The men sleep in private cabins that zigzag up a hillside.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Watch plein air artists at work on the hillside surrounding the farm.
    — courant.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The stretch of highway is on a hillside, and White said the deluge blew out a pipe that ran under the roadbed.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • As the morning sun warmed the village’s rocky hillsides, our group geared up in dry suits.
    — Chloe Berge, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Above the tree line, the men will risk open ground—first thistly yellow-grass hillside, then shale, then scree.
    — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The hillside is planted in Pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
    — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Rocks and a drainage culvert were added at the base of the slope, and the hillside was graded and covered with plastic tarps.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • After the war, locals stumbled on the bones of a soldier on the hillside.
    — Dave Philipps, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Then, the hillside in front of Mr. Andrews’s new house burst into flames.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Hundreds of his goats were left behind on the hillside.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Set in the Indian state of Goa, the milky-white waters of Dudhsagar Falls seem to sprawl against the area's lush, green hillside.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The hillside collapsed during heavy rains in April 2023.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The house on McCreary Road backed up to a small hillside, with a backyard that sloped up toward the tree line.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • And there’s been some videos that came out afterwards of rains in and around L.A., of just this current of slush coming down the hillsides.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • In the background, a hillside could be seen overlooking some mountains and a shoreline.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025

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