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From home bakers to professionals, influencers to non-bakers, everyone places their cakes on the tables stretching across the grassy knoll, with Sydney's famed Harbour Bridge as the backdrop.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

For Anderson’s 2007 mad epic, he walked ranches around Marfa, Texas, before deciding on the knoll where the 90-foot oil derrick would go.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

During the afternoon, we sprawled out on a grassy knoll by the beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

With treelike structures, a green knoll and overhead chimes incorporating colorful carved birds, the 3,500-square-foot space exposes young minds to art’s most fundamental ingredients: materials.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

They had seen the Sorrow Eater make her way up the side of the knoll, and Glerk felt his blood go cold.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Homeless people live in or around the park, many sleeping on the grassy knolls by the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

Iowa at the time, Mr. Hill said, would have been a “parkland,” with patches of trees mixed in with grassy knolls.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Three zebras have been frocklicking through the lush, grassy knolls of Prince George’s County, Maryland, since the end of August.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2021

Workers had painted large circles on the grassy knolls where spectators take in the action on big screens to delineate where each group of fans that arrived together should sit.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021

These "knolls, or hillocks,” the two men wrote, were "natural eminences of sand.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Spreads in their 160-page book show some outfits knolled from hat to scarf to shoes to handbag, alongside sketches from the Mattel archives and drawings by the film’s costume designers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024

The humble records of my life to search, I have not herded with mere pagan beasts: But sometimes I have "sat at good men's feasts," And I have been "where bells have knolled to church."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

In the direction of the Mexican quarter, the bell of the cathedral knolled at intervals.

From Blix by Frank Norris

“If ever been where bells have knolled to church”; if you have ever been within sound of Bow bells; if you have ever been happy and haughty enough to call yourself a Cockney.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

From that dark day of blood, When Vengeance triumphed, and the curfew knolled, England, thy proud majestic policy Slowly arose!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend.

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

Friend, a handsome house to lodge a, 139. --, knolling a departing, 62.

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern

Seventy-three bells in chromatic diapason—with their tinkling, ringing, tolling, knolling peal!

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, knolling away time.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby