How to Use hillside in a Sentence
hillside
noun- Streams of rainwater rushed down the hillside.
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The back of the house opens to a flat, grassy yard notched into the hillside.
— Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2023 -
These plants’ roots grow deep and wide, to hold the hillside in place.
— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024 -
The house is on the edge of a hillside in a yard grown high with grass and flowers.
— cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022 -
Since April of last year, rows of new graves have crept up the hillside, more than 417 in all.
— Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023 -
Go down the hillside here, in the direction of the wide trail below.
— Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023 -
The area is known for sizable hillside plots of land and stately homes.
— Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023 -
The bonus, as golfers of all ages have learned, is the views that hillside and canyon courses offer.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022 -
The hillside is planted in pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
— Jeastman, oregonlive, 7 July 2023 -
Once the hillside home was vacant, Pickart was ready to take on a new challenge.
— Claire Brito, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023 -
The men sleep in private cabins that zigzag up a hillside.
— Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023 -
The hillside is planted in Pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
— oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2022 -
Rocks and a drainage culvert were added at the base of the slope, and the hillside was graded and covered with plastic tarps.
— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Then, the hillside in front of Mr. Andrews’s new house burst into flames.
— New York Times, 16 May 2022 -
Hundreds of his goats were left behind on the hillside.
— Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022 -
The hillside collapsed during heavy rains in April 2023.
— Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024 -
The police found Banuelos sitting on the hillside, not far from a bloody knife.
— Thomas Lake, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024 -
O’Brien said the aircraft missed a condo complex and hit a hillside.
— Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Miller lives in a home built on a hillside near Todd, north of Boone, with her autistic son and baby.
— Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024 -
The hillside suites—long a guest favorite for their ocean views—still have their private pools as well.
— Ann Abel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 -
The van weaved through the mountainous Highlands, glassy lakes, and frosty hillsides.
— Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024 -
Frontier plans to keep off wetlands to the west, and to the north, a hillside would screen the development from Sprague.
— Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022 -
Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.
— Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024 -
The cars sail over a hillside of makeshift houses all painted pink, yellow and turquoise.
— Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023 -
The Central campsite and refugio are nestled against a hillside with a view of the massif.
— Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023 -
Ibiza, the party-loving wild child of the bunch, has a shy side too, by way of hillside hamlets and a storied old town.
— Jessica Benavides Canepa, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023 -
This thing was laid out on a hillside, fiberglass chutes zigzagging for hundreds of yards down the slope.
— al, 5 July 2022 -
The duo are planning to return to the hillside next summer to excavate more.
— Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The black bear was found dead near a duffel bag and 40 packages of cocaine, ripped open and scattered over the hillside.
— Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 Dec. 2022 -
Umbria, a region in central Italy next to Tuscany, is known more for its lush green spaces, hillside cities and Etruscan and Roman ruins than for its art.
— Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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