hillock
noun
a small hill.
hillocky
-
a word derived from
hillock.
Example Sentences
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The uncertain, rough motion in streets hillocky with snow, or on roads consisting for the season of a ridge of snow with holes in it, is disagreeable and provocative of headache.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
The south-east end of the island was hillocky, with volcanic subsoil.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
An undulating Landscape, hillocky and hilly, but not mountainous, and buried under the weight of a day and night's incessant and continuous snow-fall.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
The hill rose up behind him and sent him down its hillocky slopes as though before the horns of an avalanche.
From The Dark House by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie
