hill
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Last year organisers ASO introduced a circuit which takes on a cobbled climb over the city's famous Montmartre hill, changing the parcours enough to encourage the heavier, more powerful riders to challenge for victory.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
It’s a feat of engineering, situated on a hill between the park’s upper and lower lots, extending out toward Lankershim Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The next hill to conquer is social control.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Home to more than 115,000 residents, Manshiyet Nasser is a predominantly Coptic Christian neighbourhood nestled beneath the Mokattam hill and facing Cairo's historic Citadel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
What would Da say when he came up the road from Galway and Maggie wasn’t at the top of the hill waiting for him?
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
"A fire is devastating. People who want to come will come anyway. But it’s not the same seeing the green hills as seeing them completely desolate and black."
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The hills of Northern Ireland, northern England and north Wales will have 5-10mm of rain this weekend.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO—In the months after Sam Kirchner disappeared in November, Matthew Hall searched for him on city streets where homeless live and in wooded hills where campers hide away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Set against a backdrop of rolling hills, this thoughtfully upgraded residence delivers a lifestyle defined by comfort, connection, and effortless indoor-outdoor flow,” the listing notes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
People said that many times, on moonlight nights, she would put on her wedding dress and go walking in the hills all alone—just walking along with her head bowed.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Beans should not be much hilled in hoeing, and should never be worked when wet.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
The potatoes were growing finely and he hilled them up for the first time.
From Hiram the Young Farmer by Todd, Burbank L.
I think I hilled those spuds, too, with furrows—or a crop of Indian corn I put in later on.
From Joe Wilson and His Mates by Lawson, Henry
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 Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)
They are usually hilled up pretty well after starting to grow well.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
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
At the usual first hilling time, Dowding pulls a little nearby compost around each plant in a minimound, later adding more from the heap as the plants need hilling again.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 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
A little temporary hilling will do no harm, but the ground should be kept as level as possible.
