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hill

A hill is a piece of high ground that rises up out of lower ground. A hill is like a mountain but smaller. My house was on the top of a hill. We had to climb a tall hill to reach the old family cemetery (place where dead people are buried).

hill

a local and well-defined elevation of the land they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia (= mound) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones they built small mounds to hide behind form into a hill (= mound) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands

Hill

risque English comedian (1925-1992) United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)

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Simple sentences

You see a white building at the foot of the hill.
There was a cottage on the side of the hill.
They admired the fine view from the hill.
They stood on the top of the hill.
The castle was perched atop the hill.
The house on the hill is his.
You must go up the hill.
The church is on the hill overlooking the city.
After running up the hill, I was completely out of breath.
The hill lay covered with snow.
The hill slopes downward to the river.
The hill was all covered with snow.
The hill is always green.
The building on the hill is our school.
The old church on the hill dates back to the twelfth century.
Standing as it does on a hill, the hotel commands a fine view of the bay.
Look at that tower standing on the hill.
The house which stands on the hill is very old.
There is a large house on the hill.
The church is at the foot of the hill.
The church stood alone on the hill.
That church on the hill is very old.
Look at that building standing on the hill.
There stands a beautiful church on the hill.

Movie subtitles

And lo, Moroni buried the golden plates high on a hill.
They thought he made up this part three that was buried by a tree on the hill in his backyard.
It'll all make sense if you read Part 3, so follow those books from the hill with the tree!
Imeret is just beyond that hill.
I'm not sure I can ride such a steep hill.
You know that hill?
Do I know that cunning little hill?
Well, I made a drawing of the whole place showing the hills. It's a built-up scheme, without cutting down the hill or having it get in the way.
I made the hill fit in with the architectural scheme.
Eh? I'm at. up hill. The works are here.
One on the hill near the powder house. The other in the mill.
Elsewhere in Spain, hill people, peasants and workers have achieved better conditions through mutual self-help.
I think you're still a little boy living over on Tenth Avenue. a little bit in awe of the girl from Murray Hill.
THE ENEMY HAS CAPTURED HILL 27 AND 28.
Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people until this Teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.
Mrs. Hill. will you give me an honest answer to a straight question?
I'm afraid not. I promised to take mrs. Hill for a stroll.
Her grave is on the hill at the far edge of the compound.
He was over the rim of the hill last night.
The enemy has captured Hill 27 and 28, throwing 13 hillbillies out of work.
There's a nest near Hill 28. I want it cleaned out.
Take your men and cover the country from the road to the hill.
Do you remember long ago, when we climbed a hill into the sky?
Like the road in front of my house, on a steep hill.
Some go lickety-split up that hill, some have to shift into second.
That's all I'm trying to do, help fellows who can't make the hill.
Let's go as far as the top of the hill and see what's beyond.
We might go to the top of the hill.
Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people, until this teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.
It's a built-up scheme, without cutting down the hill or having it get in the way.
Wait on the hill as usual.
Elsewhere in Spain, hill people, peasants and workers have achieved better conditions through mutual self-help. They have made demands of the authorities for a better life..will give impetus to the coming elections and lead to a Popular Front government.
He owned the mill on Pooker Hill.
One day, the railway came along and ran a tunnel right through the hill without by-your-leave or nothing.
He haunts the station, he haunts the hill and the land that lies between!
Follow this road around Pooker Hill past the witch's oak, drop down into Hell's Collar.
He haunts the tunnel, he haunts the hill and the land that lies between.

News and current affairs

Think tanks, lobby groups, and national regulators have wasted no time in trying to influence Hill's efforts, and to head off any initiatives that might damage their interests.
Indeed, though Hill's modest initial agenda certainly would do no harm (and should be pursued as quickly as possible), any substantial measures beyond it would confront major roadblocks.
Some of the other ideas that Hill has floated, such as relaxing the capital standards for long-term investments, run counter to the EU solvency standards for insurers and pension funds that will be implemented next year.
Securing 60 votes is a steep hill to climb.
A year ago, Ukrainians dared to risk the unfamiliar territory over the hill, and found democracy and the promise of a more open and honest economy.
Every hill will become strategic, and every gully will become historic.
Hill knew that her motives would be questioned.
Hill, for example, knew that she would have to explain why she waited years to accuse Thomas, her former employer.
Sensible officials resist this, but they need political cover - elected representatives who will support them on Capitol Hill.
Now, the new financial markets commissioner, the United Kingdom's Lord Jonathan Hill, has been assigned the unenviable task of putting flesh on bare bones.
The villagers who gather on the hill to put out the fire soon see below them the tsunami wreaking havoc on their town.
In the case of Korea - as Christopher Hill, one of the most effective US negotiators on these matters, remembers - the US should make it clear that no possible solution for the divided peninsula would mean a strategic loss for China.
Cameron's spokesmen said in July that, at his first meeting with the new Commission president, Cameron would seek a prestigious portfolio, such as the internal market, for Hill.
I encounter this view frequently, even in sophisticated circles - for example, on Capitol Hill.
It is only more recently, under the watch of US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, that the Bush administration's policy toward North Korea has become more pragmatic.
But that does not mean that the water will not eventually run down the hill.
The view across San Francisco's bay from Nob Hill.
It remains to be seen whether the US Federal Reserve will also feel constrained by the political mood on Capitol Hill.
The situation is a bit fairer today, but Cameron still has a steep hill to climb if he is to win.
For example, the proposal of the relatively unknown Jonathan Hill, the leader of the UK House of Lords, as the British member of the new European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker was just the latest in a long series of British EU errors.
Anita Hill's decision in 1991 not to make anonymous accusations against Clarence Thomas, now a US Supreme Court justice, spurred a wave of enforcement of equal-employment-opportunity law.

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