Nob Hill


Fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco.

Words Nearby Nob Hill

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How to use Nob Hill in a sentence

  • Open since 1912, it is a counter with 20 or so seats situated on a busy street in between Nob Hill and Russian Hill.

  • It had vanished under a sea of white fog that broke against the ledge of Nob Hill.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • That night she had accepted an invitation of some weeks' standing, and was established in the old Yorba mansion on Nob Hill.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • She turned west and climbed the almost perpendicular blocks to the summit of Nob Hill.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • Nor did I even neglect Nob Hill, which is itself a kind of slum, being the habitat of the mere millionaire.

  • The environment of childhood became a memory: the reality of life was comprised in the super-luxurious existence on Nob Hill.

    The Killer | Stewart Edward White