HILLY in a Sentence

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1. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly country of Dauphine.
2. The horses were climbing up a hilly piece of road when she first caught sight of a light.
3. In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation.

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 Meanings and Examples of HILLY
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hilly
 a.  mountainous; having mountainous and crags
Classic Sentence:
1  There were the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  The horses were climbing up a hilly piece of road when she first caught sight of a light.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  "I should like to be," said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
5  The connection between the two places was by a hilly turnpike-road, and the travelling on that road was very slow.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
6  That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly country of Dauphine.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
Example Sentence:
1  In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation.
2  As we advanced to the northward from Botany Bay, the land gradually increased in height, so that in this latitude it may be called a hilly country.