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hilly

[ hil-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, hill·i·er, hill·i·est.

Origin of hilly¹

1350–1400; Middle English; Old English hyllīc. See hill, -y ¹

Finish in Nevada City, a quaint (and hilly) historic mining town.

As the plane makes the descent to El Paso, Berry Oakley squints down at the brown, hilly town.

Nice places to live, where the kids can run through the hilly yards behind sandstone apartment blocs.

The embers of guilt over the entire episode are placed deep within Hilly, where it will smolder for the rest of his life.

[Laughs] For me, it was, “What was the worst thing you could do to Hilly Holbrook?”

Chapman turned up a hilly road and they came out on a ridge overlooking the fenced-in track.

Malacca is, near the coast, merely hilly; but further in the interior the hills swell into a fine mountain range.

Here we came the next morning after a short time on winding and rather hilly byways.

The road from Calais, for the first twelve miles, is open and hilly.

It is pleasantly situated in a hilly district on the river Brit, from which it takes its name.

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