molehill

Example Sentences

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Could we be making a mountain out of a molehill?

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2024

Chris Ryley, who co-runs the pub, said "a mountain has been made out of a molehill" and that the dolls were "part of our history".

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

They take the molehill, and they try to turn it into a mountain, yeah.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi -- from every mountainside.

From Fox News • Jan. 17, 2022

In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson