hills

/ (hɪlz) /


pl n
  1. the hills a hilly and often remote region

  2. as old as the hills very old

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How to use hills in a sentence

  • There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress hills country when they get t' runnin' the whisky-jacks out.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?

  • They didn't linger long at Benton, but got under way and marched overland to the Cypress hills.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • The tops of the hills were laden with thunder-clouds, and the turbid atmosphere laboured with the stifling Sirocco.

  • On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.