molehill

Example Sentences

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"Walking downhill, whenever your foot slides into the very end of your shoe is when it maybe gives me a bit of bother but it's totally fine. A mountain out of a molehill."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

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

From Fox News • Jan. 17, 2022

I think you’re building a mountain out of a molehill.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2021

In another, two moles stare at a mountain in the distance, and one says, “It started out as a molehill, but then I just kept going.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

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