How to Use hilltop in a Sentence

hilltop

noun
Definition of hilltopnext
  • They built their house on a hilltop.
  • He’s chosen to stay in the hilltop ranch where the shooting took place.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Just northeast of the plaza is a hilltop park with a cross that gets some of the best sunset views in town.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The hilltop site is holy to both Muslims and Jews and has been a flashpoint for decades.
    — Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Stay at the hilltop 18 Grapes, with its two pools and views of the sea, or Naxian on the Beach, which has 10 seafront suites.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The house sits on a hilltop near the town of Fayence, overlooking acres of flower fields.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop sacred to both Jews and Muslims.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The main town is built on a hilltop, the houses scrunched together.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In a corner of the room, away from the windows, the snipers set up a high-powered rifle and pointed the long scope at the hilltop.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • The hilltop lot includes a landscaped front lawn and fenced back lawn and courtyard with grill.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 June 2022
  • Airbnb Superhost Take a private tram up to what was once the hilltop home of the one and only John Lennon.
    — Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 29 July 2022
  • One of the fires was on the hilltop behind the visitor center, Celino said.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The most kid-friendly trek in this sector is the Long Point Trail, an easy 1.6-mile stroll to a hilltop overlook of both bridge and gorge.
    — Mark Johanson, CNN, 31 May 2021
  • At the foot of the hilltop sits a swing set containing a mix of standard swing seats and wheelchair swing seats side by side.
    — Anthony Cammalleri, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
  • People who had gathered on the hilltop to watch the smoke quickly grew frantic and rushed back to their homes.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • There’s the rundown hilltop cemetery where those Lakota were buried in a yards-long mass grave.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Here's how to see the best of Croatia, from under-the-radar islands to stunning forests and hilltop towns.
    — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The couple tied the knot in the idyllic hilltop village of Bormes-les-Mimosas in the south of France in September 2021.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Suddenly, at the highest point of the hilltop, a crane rumbles.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • At night, its blue, yellow and green lights can be seen from the surrounding hilltops.
    — Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 20 May 2024
  • Chateau Eza, at the crest of the hilltop on which the town perches—which offers à la carte French and Mediterranean cuisine—gets our vote.
    — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The school, which closed in 2003, occupies a prime coastal hilltop along downtown’s Third Street.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • On a hilltop about 95 miles west of Chicago grow plant species that have been there for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
    — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The great eastern stair hall sits higher than the west entrance hall, a concession to the hilltop site.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 7 May 2021
  • Jorge Calles stands near the far edge of the dusty hilltop field with a group of older residents, looking down across the lower part of town.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Cars as far as the eye could see were crawling through monster traffic to reach the hilltop Jerusalem cemetery.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The mosque is the third holiest site in Islam and sits on a hilltop that is the most sacred site for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount.
    — Ariel Schalit and Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The track through the hilltop vineyard on the southeast tip of Sicily is slightly spongy under our feet, and the sponge a tad pungent.
    — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Palmer would sit on the balcony of her hilltop estate, which offered panoramic views of the 4,000-acre plantation.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Perhaps the most enviable feature of the $3 million home, however, was its views thanks to its hilltop perch.
    — Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024

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