hilltop
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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Marnas also recommends going 20 minutes outside of town for a meal or two in the medieval hilltop village of Ramatuelle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Erbstein revolutionized soccer in Italy before dying in 1949, along with the entire Torino team, when their plane crashed into a hilltop outside Turin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
In Lima's suburb of San Juan de Lurigancho, dusty hilltop neighbourhoods sprawl precariously down the slopes.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The jaw-dropping property is located on a hilltop overlooking L.A. and was “masterfully oriented to command panoramic sunrise-to-sunset city views.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
The children lingered on the hilltop for some time.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Then CRG turned south to Festus, nestled near limestone bluffs and densely forested hilltops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
But the hilltops and open canyons also have provided spaces to unleash unbridled joy from new romance, exciting career turns and those same family members’ health and recovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
During the 18th century C.E., voyagers roving the Orinoco River—a vast watery highway stretching across the northeastern corner of South America—reported dozens of mysterious rock engravings of snakes crowning the rocky hilltops.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
They took slow panoramas from hilltops, and held still for minutes, sometimes hours, on downtown garment-shop blocks or railroad crossings.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Many of the isolated, heavily defended camps were on hilltops in remote locations near Vietnam’s western border with Cambodia and Laos where Special Forces could keep track of enemy movement.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
The origin of hilltopping is, however, easily understood.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace
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