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Example sentences for "hilly"

Lexicographically close words:
hillsides; hillsman; hillsmen; hilltop; hilltops; hillys; hilp; hils; hilt; hilted
  1. The pin is much the safer in a hilly country, and if you have learned the secret of the throttle you can handle just as big load with the pin as with the clutch, and will never tear your gearing off or lose the stud bolts in boiler.

  2. If you were running in a hilly country how would you manage the boiler as regards water?

  3. It consists of a generally level strip running north and south at the foot of the Shan Hills, and of a hilly region rising up these hills to the east, and including the Yeyaman tract, which lies between 21 deg.

  4. It may be described as a hilly region, forming part as it does of the Nan Shan ranges.

  5. The name of Kohistan is also applied to a tract of barren and hilly country on the east border of Karachi district, Sind.

  6. Its surface is generally undulating, with hilly tracts on the right bank of the Volga, and extensive flat and marshy districts in the east.

  7. There are Europeans, but they live principally outside the town, which, with its white houses, is widely scattered over the hilly coast.

  8. The shores are hilly and covered with thick wood.

  9. I was assured that after a heavy gale, the roar can be heard at night even at Castro, a distance of no less than twenty-one sea-miles across a hilly and wooded country.

  10. The country for the whole way was of a very uniform character, some parts being rather more rocky and hilly than near the Plata.

  11. I commenced my return and followed a new road called Lockyer's Line along which the country is rather more hilly and picturesque.

  12. The people of a Hilly Region in the South-east of France, Ar-e-com-ici.

  13. Ten minutes later, Ross and his companions were speeding over the horribly rough and hilly road between Wellington and Bridgnorth.

  14. It was a very hilly twenty miles run across the moors to Trelangkerrick.

  15. They are hilly and boggy, entirely destitute of trees, but covered with a variety of grasses very nutritive for the sheep and cattle the rearing of which is the principal industry.

  16. Their country lent itself to a wide and well-organised system of cultivation better than the hilly districts of Assyria or the narrow valleys and sterile plains of Iran.

  17. Such towers erected in a hilly country like Greece would have looked much smaller.

  18. From their feet the whole country sloped in a series of hilly waves to the shores of the channel, and that muddy sea now shone from coast to coast in a blaze of tawny light: now truly, for the first time, one of the gateways of the world.

  19. It’s awfully hilly country at home,” said Edwin.

  20. This was a rough, hilly country where rhinoceros were numerous in the hills and hippopotami in the river.

  21. The road to Hymettus is hilly and difficult; and our own troubles in travelling it were augmented by those of our friends in the foremost carriages, whose horses, at an early period in the ascent, began to back and balk.

  22. Towards evening a spirited breeze began to lash the waters of the harbor into hilly madness.

  23. The stage company comes to a compromise, the woman dismounts, and we are off, away from the white houses, over the sandy road, out upon a hilly and not cheerful country.

  24. The climate is adapted to apples, as the hilly part of New England is.

  25. The banks are hilly and appear broken frequently by trap and balsaltic rock.

  26. A drive of six miles over a hilly road brought us to Burrard Inlet, at Bronson’s tavern, a recent erection, where the road terminates.

  27. He scrambled hastily to his feet, and ran clumsily after his comrades, who were gathered again into a single body, and were making a devious path across the hilly fields.

  28. They said little as they toiled up the long stretches of hilly road; the time for song and jest and play was long past; the only words that escaped their lips now were words of suffering.

  29. Lead ores (chiefly argentiferous galena) and building stone are found, and iron ore is distributed over the hilly country.

  30. There was a nearer way from Zumareen, but it would have been hilly and wearisome.

  31. As usual the ride over the plain is very tedious and tiring to the limbs--a hilly country in moderation is much more comfortable.

  32. Isn't that field too hilly for the tractor?

  33. Bob started to clean up the corners of the west field with the plow and team, while Mr. Patterson started plowing the hilly north field, so that everything would be finished by the time Bob's uncle arrived.

  34. It is a hilly and mountainous region bordering on the tropics abounding in forests which have a thick matting of grasses.

  35. Three-quarters of its surface is level, the remaining quarter which is the western part being hilly and mountainous.

  36. From here eastward stretches two hundred miles of hilly land before the general level of the Brazilian plains is reached, and the whole is covered with a dense forest, uninhabited excepting by wild Indians.

  37. The language of the people of Manna is the same that is spoken all over that extensive and hilly country called Jallonkadoo.

  38. We travelled this day through a rocky and hilly country, along the banks of the river Krieko, and at sunset came to the village of Soomo, where we slept.

  39. The country was not hilly nor flat, but swelling with ups and downs.

  40. It is very hilly and rocky close to the sea; and away inland, the high mountains I spoke of run up towards the sky.

  41. But he rode fast enough to be far beyond the range of a second bullet, and maintained a good pace for a long time, through hilly and wooded country.

  42. The country grew rougher, being so steep and hilly that it was not easy of cultivation, and hence remained clothed in dense forest and undergrowth.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hilly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    knobby; mountainous; rolling