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
Could we be making a mountain out of a molehill?
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2024
They take the molehill, and they try to turn it into a mountain, yeah.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
A molehill is even said to have caused the death of William of Orange, who was thrown from a horse that tripped over one.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
