How to Use hillock in a Sentence

hillock

noun
  • Lawns, hillocks and a central plaza fill the space within the walkway that loops around the park.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The black splotches were raised, like tiny hillocks, and covered in even tinier white stipples.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The upstage wall sometimes retracts to expose a grassy hillock with small trees.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Beyond the river is the golf course, which stretches into acres of neat hillocks and ponds.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Marcus took the gun, aimed it with one hand at a hillock toward the far end of the field, and pulled the trigger.
    — James Pogue, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Below me lie a sprawl of rust and ochre hillocks, undulating all the way to the horizon.
    — Priyanka Mattoo, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The crispy chicken comes next to a hillock of apple-cabbage slaw that’s a little on the bitter side.
    — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 22 Feb. 2018
  • This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
  • As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
    — Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
  • As Shkvyria places a camera trap on a pine tree near the wolf hillock, Burdo explains.
    — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016
  • Around them, the country seems no less fantastical—jagged outcrops of pale rock, rising from low brown hillocks.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • The hillock also serves to beckon people from the distance, a head-scratching apparition that pulls you west.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The clamber up and over a few small hillocks is all part of the fun, as is a brave cold water dip, but the real magic can be found amongst the sand dunes.
    — Rosie Conroy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Built Wild's climax was a 38-degree hill climb and descent over a 22-foot-high steel hillock.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • As he was carried on a stretcher down the hillock of debris, rescuers and spectators broke into cheers and applause.
    — Elisabeth Malkin, Marina Franco and Albinson Linares, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The $8 million lumpy hillock closed January 9, just six months after opening.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Within the remnants of the warehouse at the west end there’s another unexpected sight — a 9-foot-tall hillock cloaked in lush green grass.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The best seats are the ones that hug the open kitchen, where the chefs boil, sauté, and grate hillocks of Parmesan with mesmerizing coordination.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Things picked up as the morning went on, and by mid-afternoon there were strollers taking in the scene, as well as couples and families enjoying the lush grass on green hillocks.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • The design being released this week features several landscaped hillocks — and not just to enhance outward views or deflect incoming winds.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The inner walls are wide and finely terraced, and theouter ramparts display a generally radial structure of hillocks.
    — Miguel Claro, Space.com, 25 July 2018
  • The hillocks that existed back in Yokut Indian days were flattened by a hunk of metal called the Fresno Scraper.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Its neighboring hillock of garlicky mashed potatoes, laced with the meat’s braising liquid, dwarfed the meat, but that’s a petty quibble with one of Skillets’ tastiest dishes.
    — Andrew Marton, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017

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