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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Miniutti, who is originally from Massachusetts, and learned to snowboard on the freezing, icy hills of New England, still prefers the alpine experience on the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times
The rugged hills surrounding Ganzhou are home to the world's largest mining and processing operations of the strategic "heavy" elements, including dysprosium, yttrium and terbium.
From Barron's
The LAFD, she said, didn’t have enough firefighters, based at enough fire stations, to quench the wind-driven flames that were tearing through the hills.
From Los Angeles Times
In a cattle shed on the Somerset hills, near Bruton, we are scraping it off the floors with old fashioned shovels.
From BBC
She was also able to move out of her old home in Sherman Oaks, the one with the yurt in the backyard, and into a new light-filled ranch-style house up in the hills.
From Los Angeles Times
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