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Nob Hill

Cultural  
  1. Fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco.


Example Sentences

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“The vibration from San Francisco goes up to the steppes of Kazakhstan,” said Sanzhar, who is staying at a hotel in the Nob Hill neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

A San Francisco man suspected of vandalizing a Nob Hill mosque was arrested Wednesday evening while visiting the scene of his alleged crime for the second time in as many days.

From Los Angeles Times

Housing: San Francisco legislators have halted a project that would have replaced a single-family Nob Hill home with 10 townhouses, after neighbors objected to the plan, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

From New York Times

We were sitting on the roof of Atmosphere, a hacker house in Nob Hill that he helped found; all around us, San Francisco was enchanting in the afternoon light.

From New York Times

A person collecting signatures outside a Nob Hill Foods grocery store in Alameda told Noel Rabinowitz that signing the petition on the oil referendum would protect communities from neighborhood drilling.

From Los Angeles Times