How to Use hilltop in a Sentence

hilltop

noun
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  • They built their house on a hilltop.
  • The members of the Guard stood up and moved to a hilltop.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
  • He’s chosen to stay in the hilltop ranch where the shooting took place.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • How about a gorgeous bed on a hilltop in the Swiss Alps. Sign me up!
    — NBC News, 3 June 2020
  • And for heaven’s sake, don’t stand on a hilltop and glass.
    — Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Just northeast of the plaza is a hilltop park with a cross that gets some of the best sunset views in town.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The hilltop site is holy to both Muslims and Jews and has been a flashpoint for decades.
    — Andrew Carey, Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Stay at the hilltop 18 Grapes, with its two pools and views of the sea, or Naxian on the Beach, which has 10 seafront suites.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The house sits on a hilltop near the town of Fayence, overlooking acres of flower fields.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The wreckage of the plane was resting below a flat hilltop, its nose crashed through a wall.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop sacred to both Jews and Muslims.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • On a low hilltop, small headstones barely peak above the grass in the oldest part of the cemetery.
    — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2020
  • One idea Garcetti threw out: a hilltop reign at Griffith Park.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The main town is built on a hilltop, the houses scrunched together.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In a corner of the room, away from the windows, the snipers set up a high-powered rifle and pointed the long scope at the hilltop.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • But on the pitching hilltop, his gaze is lethal, as were his splitters.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The hilltop lot includes a landscaped front lawn and fenced back lawn and courtyard with grill.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 June 2022
  • Airbnb Superhost Take a private tram up to what was once the hilltop home of the one and only John Lennon.
    — Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 29 July 2022
  • The largest, 22 feet tall, sits on a hilltop above the old post office, a historic church and a museum.
    — Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • One of the fires was on the hilltop behind the visitor center, Celino said.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The most kid-friendly trek in this sector is the Long Point Trail, an easy 1.6-mile stroll to a hilltop overlook of both bridge and gorge.
    — Mark Johanson, CNN, 31 May 2021
  • At the foot of the hilltop sits a swing set containing a mix of standard swing seats and wheelchair swing seats side by side.
    — Anthony Cammalleri, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
  • People who had gathered on the hilltop to watch the smoke quickly grew frantic and rushed back to their homes.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • In hill country, look for scrapes dug 70 yards or so below a brushy hilltop.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
  • There’s the rundown hilltop cemetery where those Lakota were buried in a yards-long mass grave.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Here's how to see the best of Croatia, from under-the-radar islands to stunning forests and hilltop towns.
    — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Sliding doors open to a deck and level yard and there are two patios with hilltop views.
    — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The couple tied the knot in the idyllic hilltop village of Bormes-les-Mimosas in the south of France in September 2021.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Any number of scenarios might’ve played out on that hilltop.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Imagine a prime hilltop spot facing the northern peaks of Lesbos island just across the Mytilini Strait, its slopes plunging 700 feet down to clear Aegean waters.
    — John Oseid, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024

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