hills
Britishplural noun
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a hilly and often remote region
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very old
Example Sentences
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There’s gold in them thar hills, but maybe not as much as speculators speculated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Don't be surprised if there are also a few flurries of snow on the hills of northern England and north Wales early on Easter morning, before milder air starts to move in.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
At a viewpoint overlooking Chiang Mai, the city skyline was almost entirely obscured, with only faint outlines of hills visible through a dense grey haze and a dim orange sun hanging in the sky.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Our beautiful encircling topography of mountains and hills is a bowl ready-made by ancient plate tectonics to be filled with smoke and smog.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
People in the Cherokee hills were so scared of hydrophobia they didn’t talk about it in loud voices.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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