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As teenagers growing up in the area, they climbed the staircase barefoot, sprinted the hill overlooking the Pacific and stretched their limbs on the shoreline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

"We ran for our lives and spent more than 48 hours on a hill before help finally arrived."

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Also on the last day, with just 20km to go, I had a serious fall when my handlebars broke going down a steep hill", he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

In a yurt on a hill overlooking the surf on the North Shore, young scientists create parts on 3-D printers for wastewater-treatment machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

I stood on the brake and held the sled back and we slithered down the hill.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

When he was 16, he said he left home in a West Bank settlement and hiked into the hills with goats and little else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

“When I look at it, I see the hills outside of Wellington or people with moko tattoos—things that just make me instantly think of home.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Its sweeping vistas of the region’s hills, mountains and rivers make visible Church’s lifelong engagement with nature; the landscape design of its expansive 250 acres was also his.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

She had travelled in the hills before and gone hiking with her family.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Yes, I did,” Mama said, “and I couldn’t understand it. I’ve never seen the hills so quiet. You can always hear something.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

There was little work for Paul to do in the village; but he kept their own garden in good trim—the onion-bed clear of weeds, and the potatoes well hilled.

From Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

Beans should not be much hilled in hoeing, and should never be worked when wet.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

Holes were then to be dug at least 8 feet apart, one foot square, and one foot deep, and in each two or three roots planted and well hilled up.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler

In cultivating I keep the surface level, as they do better if kept in this way than if they are hilled up.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

Master of the games of the fair hilled Taillten, King of Tara of a hundred conflicts; Chief of Fodla the noble, Aed of Oileac who died too soon.

From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston

That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023

He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”

From New York Times ● May 27, 2020

On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

Jim laughed a little himself, resuming his work, and hauling the dirt up faster around the potatoes he was hilling.

From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe