How to Use hillside in a Sentence

hillside

noun
Definition of hillsidenext
Synonyms for hillsidenext
  • Streams of rainwater rushed down the hillside.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The hillside collapsed during heavy rains in April 2023.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • O’Brien said the aircraft missed a condo complex and hit a hillside.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The duo are planning to return to the hillside next summer to excavate more.
    — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The artist Betye Saar lives up three flights of stairs in a house with a pink door, tucked into a Laurel Canyon hillside.
    — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The shallow river, 30 feet broad, takes up most of the valley floor, leaving the train clinging to a steep hillside.
    — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In April, bluebells were waving across the hillside in a thousand shades of blue, pink, lavender and white.
    — Margo Rabb, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But it’s been worth it for the desert’s charms: the temperate winters and the cholla and saguaro growing on the hillsides — even as the city gets hotter.
    — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Photos from the scene showed that a massive chunk of earth had broken off from the hillside behind the home on Galaxy Drive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Wearing a baseball cap and a bright-red backpack, Fried charged up a hillside, shoes crunching on the dirt.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Dozens of them are buried in a cemetery clinging to a hillside in this western village.
    — James Marson, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Scattered across the steeply sloped hillside, piles of logs are thoughtfully stacked.
    — Andria Hautamaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • On the fringes, slash-and-burn farming has scarred the hillsides, sending red dust and gritty sand over the landscape when the dry-season winds blow.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On this hillside, a brighter yellow emerges alongside lime green.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Her body was found buried under wood and leaves on a steep hillside in the park, about 200 feet off the road, authorities said.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Many years ago, a short tunnel was cut into a hillside along Thorn Creek, leading to an arched vault made of brick.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • But between 1 and 2 p.m., the few firetrucks that had remained on the hillside left, both Advinculas said.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The four-acre estate is perched atop a rocky hillside with unobstructed, 360-degree views of the Aegean Sea.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024

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