hillier
- comparative of hilly.
Example Sentences
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Hydrants functioned at lower elevations, but in hillier areas like the Palisades Highlands — where the storage tanks hold water that flows by gravity to communities below — they ran dry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
In hillier areas, landslides destroyed roads and bridges collapsed.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2023
The Met Office said: "Some hillier parts, perhaps especially across Lothian and Borders, could perhaps see around 50mm, this falling onto wet ground, increasing the possibility of a few flooding problems."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022
Walkers who take the hillier route to the left will pass Serra’s “Contour 290,” a towering 2004 steel twist that curves around a grove of trees.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Somewhere in the mountains of Virginia, where the road grew narrower and hillier, Maribel complained that her stomach hurt.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
