knoll

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

Wedged between two cream-colored apartment complexes on a knoll in South Pasadena is a time warp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Wiejkowo’s Church of The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary stands atop a small round knoll.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022

At last they arrived at the bare knoll of the mountain with only the stars for cover.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

At one point, more than 200 weather-beaten tents had sprouted along the sand and grassy knolls that run between the bike path and Ocean Front Walk, the concrete boardwalk.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

We crawled over knolls usually submerged by the Bay.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

“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

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

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

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

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

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

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