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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

Highway 50, where the Caldor Fire had continued burning out of control toward Lake Tahoe, Safford parked his SUV and scrambled up a rocky knoll to point out a slope barren of trees.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

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

The multicolored toilet had been left in a grassy knoll near an AMC Theatre at the mall, GPD Sgt.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2023

Luna heard the sound of footsteps approaching on the far side of the knoll before she saw it: a pair of glowing eyes.

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

He stood near the rushing river, the rolling hills covered in white oaks, the pristine creeks flowing gently beside grassy knolls dotted with wildflowers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

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

Streams and knolls and rocky slopes were marked.

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

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

O Mary! this is the land of congyration — The bell knolled when we were there — I saw lights, and heard lamentations.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“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

I, too, have been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts; but I bear no mark of it.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast!

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

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

“And his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell Remembered knolling a departing friend.”

From Old Church Lore by William Andrews

The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departing friend.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

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

"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 The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling