How to Use knoll in a Sentence

knoll

noun
  • In one case, someone built a house on a knoll much above the street.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • The snow was wet and deep, and the tracks of those three wolves were all around on the knoll.
    — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
  • The widow’s house has become our grassy knoll.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maples and willows form walls on two sides and a knoll rises to the south.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Dick had just swung around me when a grizzly bear walked out from behind a knoll.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • The knob was a small rocky knoll, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichen.
    — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The new space includes a stage, a grassy knoll and parking spots for food trucks.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Combines ran up and over knolls and ravines, harvesting wheat.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
  • The Aramai people led the way up a steep hill, on a trail that led to a knoll.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • This home is built into the rocks on a small knoll, with its own private stairway on to the beach.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 15 May 2018
  • The two sit on a grassy knoll propped up by a rudimentary wooden fence.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • There are some seats in the front and a large grassy knoll where people sat on picnic blankets in the back.
    — Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • These knolls support forests of beech, maple and oak, as well as a gorgeous strain of native white pine.
    — Kristan Schiller, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • In contrast, Nike's photo has no grassy knoll in the foreground.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The site is on a south-facing slope on a knoll next to tundra and lakes that drain into a river.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2018
  • Along the left are knolls and trees, preventing any decent second shot if your first lands over there.
    — David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The big old trees on this knoll were spaced farther apart, and the saplings were fewer and farther between.
    — Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
  • Inside the bowl, arguably the best seats were furthest away in a grassy knoll toward the back end of the venue.
    — Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Moose were plentiful, feeding and resting on grassy knolls.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Soft ridges sloped down to the water in a subtle cascade of rocky knolls and tundra pockets.
    — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The house, built in 1998, sits high on a knoll with panoramic mountain and city views.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • There are about a half-mile of trails and several overlooks on top of rocky knolls and under pitch pines and scrub oaks.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • Irish Leather by Memo Paris smells like a hike, too, albeit one on a windy, grassy knoll.
    — Jane Larkworthy, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Video from the meet shows Holly start from a grassy knoll and sprint past two other runners on her way to Laney.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Hang out on the grassy knoll and watch passersby or catch the ships and yachts sailing on San Diego Bay.
    — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • And the bell that Mill rang on Tuesday night was the death knoll for my Sixers fandom.
    — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Their dad, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, is standing on the grassy knoll.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • And this is me in shorts and a T-shirt hiding under a blanket sunning on a grassy knoll and my marmot is with me.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The San Gabriels stood in the distance, a bank of cumulus clouds roiling above while palm trees swayed on a knoll.
    — Davy Rothbart, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Atop a hill in the eucalyptus knoll across the street, a striker in a beret and smock stood at an easel painting a landscape of the ordeal.
    — Jake S. Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022

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