molehill

Example Sentences

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And some of his most unexpected laughs are in his own mixing up of mountains and molehills.

From New York Times

"China could act in non-reciprocal fashion, retaliating somewhere other than on the investment side. But the executive order is barely going to do anything, and China escalating would risk turning a molehill into a mountain."

From Reuters

When the mass of several suns is compressed into an orb that is 10 km in diameter, extreme gravity crushes mountains of superdense material into molehills that are millimeters tall.

From Scientific American

“This is another example of right-wing conservatives making a mountain out of a molehill,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democrat.

From Washington Times

In particular, Tacopina leaned heavily into the idea that the real problem is hysterical women turning molehills into mountains.

From Salon