hill
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At one point during production, 20 crew members pushed a camera crane up a hill to save money, people who worked on the film said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Still, what seemed to move him most was that the celebration would reach beyond the museum on the hill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The highlight of Rubio's visit is set to be his address from the Pnyx, a hill near the Acropolis that is the parliamentary assembly of ancient Athenian democracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Fyrish Monument, near Alness, is a mock ruin called a folly on the summit of the hill Cnoc Fyrish, which overlooks the Cromarty Firth.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
By the time we were finished, there was a small hill of them, enough to last for only a few days.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
There are eight categorised hills to negotiate and about 3,000m of climbing in total.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
They landed in a Laurel Canyon house with views, but she felt isolated in the hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
As I drove across the state line, I saw similar landscapes—rolling hills and vivid fall leaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The main residence spans 5,035 square feet and features four bedrooms and five bathrooms, along with a wraparound porch with unencumbered views of the surrounding Tennessee hills.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
He emerged into a glittering world of snow hills and wind-carved ridges.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
When the plants were about knee high they were "hilled up," as the Indian had done his corn, or the Englishman his cabbage, and considered "laid by."
From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by G. Melvin Herndon
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 Henry Lawson
Phoenix like symbol of the departed soul, he soars into the sky, and the seven hilled city throbs with pride, reverberating the shouts of her people.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
These were immediately taken on board, and consisted of two sheep, an elk ready hilled, and a few fowls, with some vegetables and fruit.
Dusty and weary, but in excellent spirits over the large space that he and the hired man had "hilled up," he went whistling home through the long shadows of the June evening.
From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe
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
If I set him to hoeing corn or hilling potatoes, I'd always find him stopping to chase hop-toads, or off after chip-squirrels.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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