How to Use molehill in a Sentence

molehill

noun
  • Due to a leak to the media, a mountain has been made out of a molehill.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Avoid making a mountain out of a molehill.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Everyone made a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill if your money is involved.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 2 May 2017
  • There’s no need to fuss over molehills or any other minor drains on your energy.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The story hasn’t changed so much as it’s gone from molehill to mountain, snowball to boulder.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Another local spotted a late medieval ring on top of a molehill.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • In short, the appeals court told the lawyer to pick the correct remedy and to not make a mountain out of a molehill.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The current Tory front bench is a row of exhausted molehills.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The counterargument is that a molehill can soon enough become a mountain.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The activists insist that conservatives are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
    — Tracey Schirra, National Review, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Help your team members to also believe in the positive qualities of hybrid work and not to make a mountain out of a molehill.
    — Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • What appears to be a molehill can easily turn into a mountain, so hold off on initiating anything new.
    — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Creatively speaking, isn’t this making a Matterhorn out of a molehill?
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • And Spicer appears to be making Mount Kilimanjaro out of a molehill.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The attacks on Ramirez make a mountain out of a molehill, based on a questionable translation of her Spanish words.
    — Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There are too many rumors, too many gossip mongers and too many mountains of speculative chatter about frivolous molehills.
    — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 15 May 2017
  • The War of the Rohirrim is an attempt at creating a mountain-sized fantasy epic out of a molehill of footnotes.
    — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
    — Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Each of us moves through a world strewn with figurative mountains and molehills, continually assessing what matters more and what matters less.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But last week, the typically gargantuan feta mountain was more like a molehill—all because of a feta cheese shortage starting in Greece.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
  • There's a tendency in this modern political and media environment to see everything as a mountain -- even the molehills.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2018
  • Investors who think Vail Resorts’ business will be anything close to normal in the coming ski season risk mistaking a mountain of trouble for a molehill.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The Democratic counter is that the memo is a one-sided partisan summary that takes investigative actions out of context in order to make mountains out of molehills.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • It is rated to handle inclines up to 50% (27°) and is designed to tackle soft soil, mud, exposed roots and molehills without constant intervention.
    — New Atlas, 15 Mar. 2026
  • When battling molehills, the engine feels excruciatingly winded.
    — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • When Sue began studying the impact of microaggressions, many of his White colleagues told him his work was making a mountain out of a molehill, that microaggressions were just macro nonsense.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Every other mountain in the Alaska Range looked like the proverbial molehill compared to the 20,000-foot behemoth.
    — The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
  • McDonald's standard Big Mac is a molehill by comparison at 540 calories.
    — Eli Blumenthal, ajc, 22 May 2018

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