8 sentences with 'hills'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hills and other words derived from it.
• « The contractor was to finish a house in the hills overlooking the Sierra Nevada town of Truckee, California. »
• « Then a familiar phrase is heard: "The hills come alive to the sound of music" and, suddenly, it appears ... could it be possible? »
• « "I was running a lot, up and down hills," she explains, "and every now and then I would sing, testing my voice." »
• « Rome was originally a city built in the middle of seven hills surrounded by marshes in central Italy. »
• « Rome itself had some key geographical advantages. Its hills were easily defensible, making it difficult for invaders to carry out a successful attack. »
• « A peculiar phenomenon derived from the importance of capitals was that political revolutions often began as single-city revolutions: if a mob could take to the streets of Paris, for example, it could well send the king running for the proverbial hills and declare a new government (which happened in 1830 and 1848). »
• « The rebels, disparagingly referred to as "Mau Mau" (meaning something like "savages of the hills"), in turn attacked white civilians, in many cases killing them outright. »
• « As his ten-year-old brother Elijah threw another stone, Zach looked up at the sky: a purple glow over the rolling hills heralded the sunset. »