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Example sentences for "hillside"

Lexicographically close words:
hillman; hillmen; hillock; hillocks; hills; hillsides; hillsman; hillsmen; hilltop; hilltops
  1. After the service he was borne tenderly from the Methodist church to his last rest in the hillside cemetery where he had requested to be laid beside his beloved mother.

  2. The plain little church has been transformed into a neat modern one with a corner tower,[4] and the worshippers with whom my memory fills those pews all lie quietly sleeping on the hillside in the neighboring cemetery.

  3. Like a sponge, the hillside oozed with well-water.

  4. A little spring, discovered by the architect in digging the foundations of the wall, trickles down the hillside over silvery sand to the lake, between two banks of water-cress, hugging the edge of the woods.

  5. I shall carry my park up the hillside and plant on the highest point some pretty kiosque, whence, perhaps, my eyes may catch the shimmer of the Mediterranean.

  6. The spot chosen was a very beautiful one--a sloping hillside gradually narrowing into a strip six or seven hundred yards wide and running between two of the most picturesque lakes the boys had ever seen.

  7. Ten years from now, and this hillside for forty miles will be a succession of orange groves.

  8. They discussed their plans before the boys without reserve, and it soon became evident to the latter that the future of this hillside could bear no comparison with the other paper towns they had seen.

  9. They came back to the bridge and climbed up the hillside by a flight of stone steps.

  10. We brought the car up sharply on the steep hillside in front of the abbey and an old woman in a nearby cottage called to us to "gang right in--ye'll find the keeper in the gardens.

  11. The house is situated on a wooded hillside and commands a fine view of the lake.

  12. Ryde is situated on a hillside sloping toward the sea, and its water front with drives and gardens, is one of the most charming we know of.

  13. It is growing late--we might well wish for more time to admire the views from the hillside road.

  14. At length Gandelot turned a little towards the north, up a smaller valley, which, winding away with many bends and angles, never exposed more than one or two hundred yards of hillside to the view at once.

  15. He was left to do so for some way in solitude, though he doubted not that the hillside and the valley below him were both much more replete with human life than they seemed to be.

  16. If that be all," answered the young cavalier, "I should think that there was less chance of being taken on the hillside than here.

  17. Each recalled that hillside fight when Big Pete Burton had again struggled to do his duty and a misdirected bullet had killed Maw Lutts.

  18. And in a trice, Hatfield had turned that hillside graveyard into a seething crucible, whose moulten maw opened and sucked the living in with the impotent smothered dead.

  19. Or could he not conceal himself in some of the holes and crevices on the stony hillside until they should be tired of searching?

  20. But the double crash that burst from the hillside now--those red jets of flame--meant no war of the elements.

  21. Sakr-el-Bahr himself paced the poop deck of the carack and watched the lights perish one by one in the little town that straggled up the hillside before him.

  22. He pointed up the hillside to the nearest olive tree, a hundred paces distant.

  23. Isabelle felt curiously alone, sitting here in the crowded dining room,--alone as she had not felt on the most solitary hillside of Grosvenor.

  24. From the hillside below came a whistled note, then the bar of a song, like a bird call.

  25. In the churchyard on the hillside may be seen the grave of Robin Hood's stalwart lieutenant, Little John.

  26. Above the weirs it is lake-like in its wide expanse, reflecting the green verdure at its side, the undulating uplands beyond, and the hillside cemetery that by its delectable situation seems to render Death beautiful.

  27. Any traveller by Tyneside whom night should overtake would be amazed to see fires gleaming out of the hillside about two miles below Bywell.

  28. You see it clinging round the heights and moving restlessly up and down the hillside like some uneasy and malignant spirit.

  29. It may have been in her own little home, or upon its roof, where she often went for prayer, or perhaps under a tree on the hillside near the village.

  30. But they did not know that in that little one-room house on the hillside of Nazareth, the King was waiting for his call to go forth and bring in the true Kingdom of God.

  31. It is beyond reason to expect that all sultans, datus, and panglimas will resign their offices, give up their rank and privileges, and be content to plant corn on the hillside or catch fish along the beach.

  32. It is built on the hillside and commands a pretty view of the sea.

  33. His herd on the hillside yonder makes a pretty picture of tranquillity.

  34. Will there be maple syrup from yonder hillside grove?

  35. Fleetfoot and his companions had halted on a hillside not far from the cave.

  36. She had started to the hillside to dig roots and had gone only a little way when she heard something pulling and tugging among the vines.

  37. Before him a faded expanse of green stretched out for two miles to the white cottage on the hillside which he had chosen as his point.

  38. They got away in driblets, slowly, very slowly, until at last nothing was left upon the hillside but a handful of infantry, the battery, and the dead and wounded.

  39. Beyond, a black hillside clambered up to the edge of the sky.

  40. There were two tanks of rain water drained from the hillside along a dirty channel filled with animal refuse.

  41. I have seen a hillside where no troops had been for weeks, almost entirely covered with shell holes.

  42. The path ceased, and it was necessary to go diagonally up the steep hillside through the snow.

  43. The shepherd on the hillside seldom tells his tale uninterrupted.

  44. Such a storm as the writer describes will recall vividly to the memory of any one who has stayed in an Italian hillside village the pathetic anxiety of the natives when a thunderstorm is brewing.

  45. It came from the hillside above the shop.

  46. However, Noquala left the feasters and, directed by the boy, walked down the hillside to where the sick heifer was standing.

  47. Every quarter-section within reach of water for domestic uses had its tent or its dugout in the hillside or its hastily built cabin of planks.

  48. Rounding the base of a great stone which stood perched on the hillside as if meditating a tumble, Slavens paused a moment to look over the troubled slope of land which had been his two days before.

  49. It was so still there on that barren hillside that they could hear the river fretting over the stones of the rapids below the ford, more than half a mile away.

  50. On this particular occasion it was comparatively warm, considering that we were on an open hillside in the Taurus, and we were much rested by the sleep we obtained.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hillside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bank; bevel; chute; glacis; grade; gradient; inclination; incline; pitch; scarp; side; slope