HILL in a Sentence

Learn HILL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

288 example sentences for HILL, such as:

1. A hawk hovered over the hill.
2. Dug ourselves in to the hill top.
3. In front of the hill are green fields.
4. Home is the hunter, home from the hill.
5. I can see the hill through the clear glass.

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 Meanings and Examples of HILL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hill
 n.  an area of land that is higher than the surrounding land
 n.  an artificial heap or mound
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  He had to deliver right over the hill at Bickley; also go round by Waythorn, Roddam, and Pyeminster, whose names, like his own, were in Domesday Book.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
3  But the cook--Mrs. Sands she was called, but by old friends Trixie--had never in all her fifty years been over the hill, nor wanted to.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
4  Dug ourselves in to the hill top.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
5  The donkey was captured; hampers were loaded; and forming into a procession, the picnickers began to disappear over the hill.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
6  Home is the hunter, home from the hill.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  But he didn't get really angry till he saw this bare hill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  It swerved at the bottom of the hill and disappeared; but it had such a lovely easy curve, of knights riding and ladies on palfreys.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  The bristling of the hideous false teeth of tombstones on the hill affected her with a grisly kind of horror.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  They looked up the shallow valley at the mine, and beyond it, at the black-lidded houses of Tevershall crawling like some serpent up the hill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  Clifford kept the chair going till he came to the brow of the hill; Connie followed slowly behind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  Clifford, however, putting on all his pressure, managed to steer into the riding, and with a strange noise the chair was fighting the hill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
13  Clifford was a heavy man: and the hill was steep.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  At the top of the hill they rested, and Connie was glad to let go.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Well, he told her he'd die rather than ever live with her again, so he took his things and went straight to his mother's on Tevershall hill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  The sun lit up the western flank of the hill.
17  Look beyond the hill and you'll see a village in the distance.
18  The hill appeared as a black mass in the distance.
19  The car was set alight and pushed over a hill.
20  Seeing that stately building on a hill and knowing the respirator center was on the back with the water view heartened me.
21  I can see the hill through the clear glass.
22  The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky.
23  And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.
24  We raced across a large field that skirted the slope of a hill.
25  On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
26  In front of the hill are green fields.
27  When I was a little kid I rolled down a hill and broke my leg.
28  On the other side of the hill, the land falls away sharply.
29  A hawk hovered over the hill.
30  He is over the hill as a professional athlete.