Recent Examples on the WebRainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024 The entree is a carnivore’s dream: A beef medallion gets pounded thin and layered with Virginia ham and cheese, an indulgence balanced with a hillock of sprightly greens.—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023 The black splotches were raised, like tiny hillocks, and covered in even tinier white stipples.—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023 Dust becomes rock, flats become hillocks.—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023 Why, when a statistically insignificant number of SUV owners ever venture off-road, would Porsche—a company that year in, year out builds the best sports cars in the world—burden the Cayenne with such silly amounts of heavy, hillock-humping capacity?—Dan Neil, Car and Driver, 2 June 2020 The luggage capacity is slightly reduced by the carpeted hillock behind the rear seats, under which dwell some of the power electronics.—Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 Built Wild's climax was a 38-degree hill climb and descent over a 22-foot-high steel hillock.—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021 And during the winter months, he’s had his stick at his side, ready to plunge it into any random hump, hillock or drift.—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
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