Example Sentences

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That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2023

He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”

From New York Times • May 27, 2020

On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016

This single operation will fit some of the early-planted sorts for market in the course of two weeks; though a second operation, called hilling, is usually considered desirable, even with the self-blanching sorts.

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