How to Use hilly in a Sentence

hilly

adjective
  • The hilly course was soaked with more than 1½ inches of rain overnight.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The car veered to the right off the highway into a hilly area.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The wreckage of the plane was strewn across a hilly, forested area.
    — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Gehrke doesn’t back away from anyone on a hilly dirt track, either.
    — Darren Day, chicagotribune.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Same hilly route through the woods, same rhythmic music of paws on snow.
    — Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Salis rock makes up many of the hilly top growing sites on this western edge.
    — Susan H. Gordon, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • Out in the country, the same thing can happen with hilly roads that twist and turn.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2020
  • This year’s full-marathon course should be less challenging than last year’s hilly route.
    — Jordan Airington, kansascity, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The hilly mound of an island rises out of the calm waters of the lake.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The race course cannot be excessively hilly and can have no steep hills.
    — Jeff Galloway, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The road where the chase occurred is hilly and curvy, with steep drop offs and gullies, the charges said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Worse, the canyon marked the start of rocky, hilly terrain that extended for miles.
    — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The blaze, dubbed the Crown fire, broke out northwest of there in hilly terrain.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The homestead lies at the end of a hilly dirt road a few miles inland on Hansen’s farm.
    — Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Here in a more hilly region, the siren would be blocked by the hills and would only be heard in a small area.
    — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2025
  • More than 10 miles of groomed cross-country ski trails wind through the hilly landscape.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Schools in my hilly Hudson Valley town were closed for a week or more.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Truex and Busch were the class of the final stage in a caution-free race on the hilly road course.
    — Greg Beacham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • This could happen especially with more hilly routes or ones not near main roads.
    — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Most people drive the highway, but its length, hilly nature, and scenery beg to be cycled.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 May 2022
  • Cameron and Dorfman were just two of over a dozen celebrities to hit the famous (and hilly) course.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The sprawling lawns and hilly paths of this Manhattan icon weave a labyrinth that'd be easy to get lost in.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Video In one hilly neighborhood just southeast of the fire, a wall of smoke loomed high overhead.
    — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • It’s found in Shady Canyon, a hilly golf course community about five miles from the coast.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Boston Marathon, a tricky, hilly beast of a course, has humbled legends in the past.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The tour goes through hilly areas of Alton and some cobblestone streets, which could make for a bumpy ride.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Can the Lightning trailer a large and heavy powerboat up and down a hilly two-lane at Texas speeds?
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • This is when the system will crash into the hilly terrain in and near the Appalachians.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The road where the accident occurred winds through hilly terrain and is widely known as hazardous.
    — ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • The state meet took place on a hilly, windswept course in Reno where Stevens watched runners from the biggest schools race first.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021

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