hillocks

plural of hillock

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Agroforestry’s potential Arabica coffee, the most common variety sold globally, naturally evolved as an understory shrub, performing best in cooler tropical uplands with good drainage and often partial shade.
    Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It's located in northern Arizona, encompassing about 278 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands.
    Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The film is manually wound through the camera via hand knobs at either side, with a frame counter keeping track of how many exposures have been taken.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are mounds of commentary on Marlowe—historical, biographical, critical, and wildly fantastical—and all sorts of reasons to add to the heap.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Summer's berry bounties and mounds of melons are fleeting.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Set in the rural highlands, the film follows two estranged brothers who reunite in the land of their birth.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Artemis cargo landers will deliver equipment to sites along the moon’s polar highlands, while crew members will complete daily sample retrieval runs.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The full journey—there and back—would span 50 miles and climb a total of 7,100 feet, across two camel-like humps.
    Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Bogotá, Colombia installed parabolic speed humps, which were previously not authorized in 50 km/h corridors, and sustained police speed enforcement.
    Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Solar prominences are enormous loops of hot plasma that erupt from the sun's surface, tethered by magnetic fields.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Afternoon temperatures topped out in the 80s to mid 90s at lower elevations to the upper 60s and 70s at higher elevations.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • However, the 49ers' elevations for the Seahawks matchup point to good news for the star running back.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Watling notes that Sky Ranger can deal with a wider range of threats out to higher altitudes, and that Sky Sentinel works best when networked with other systems whereas Skyranger operates fine on its own.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The report, which covered May 2023 to June 2024, states that Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) were seen across a wide range of altitudes.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Hillocks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillocks. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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