How to Use molehill in a Sentence

molehill

noun
Definition of molehillnext
  • Due to a leak to the media, a mountain has been made out of a molehill.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 6 Mar. 2017
  • According to the memo, Democrats have made a mountain out of the Ukraine molehill in order to get to Trump.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • But this molehill became a mountain that the N.F.L. was willing to die on to protect its shield.
    — William C. Rhoden, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2016
  • Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill if your money is involved.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 2 May 2017
  • The story hasn’t changed so much as it’s gone from molehill to mountain, snowball to boulder.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The current Tory front bench is a row of exhausted molehills.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Donald Trump is right that the media is making a mountain out of every Trump molehill.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2017
  • And Spicer appears to be making Mount Kilimanjaro out of a molehill.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The activists insist that conservatives are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
    — Tracey Schirra, National Review, 31 Mar. 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
  • Another local spotted a late medieval ring on top of a molehill.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • The counterargument is that a molehill can soon enough become a mountain.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • This is a perfect example of how media hype can spin molehills into mountains. ...
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The one run scored earlier appeared to be more than enough for Detroit, a molehill in the shape of a mountain the Orioles were incapable of climbing, until Trey Mancini’s solo homer in the ninth inning of the 5-1 loss.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2022
  • Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • What appears to be a molehill can easily turn into a mountain, so hold off on initiating anything new.
    — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yes, even that pile of money is but a molehill in the shadow of the mountain of economic devastation from the novel coronavirus, which has pushed 26 million Americans out of work and eaten through the $2 trillion Cares Act in a few weeks.
    — Alex Davies, Wired, 27 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi -- from every mountainside. Let freedom ring.
    — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2013
  • 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
  • But only AI2 uses regular input from analysts to turn that mountain into a molehill.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2016
  • McDonald's standard Big Mac is a molehill by comparison at 540 calories.
    — Eli Blumenthal, ajc, 22 May 2018
  • Correia’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, pushed back vigorously against the prosecution, suggesting the overzealous feds have made a mountain out of a molehill.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But not only that, let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and molehill in Mississippi - from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
    — kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
  • At most moments, 312 million are not listening to excitable broadcasters making mountains of significance out of molehills of political effluvia.
    — George Will, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017

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