Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hillside
IPA transcription: [h'ɪls,aɪd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hillside
    Meaning: the side or slope of a hill
Usage examples
  • Then they struck a trail leading up a hillside.
  • The interview had taken place on the hillside between the opposing lines.
  • As soon as he was gone, the boys came out from behind the cedars, and crept up the snowy hillside.
  • The hillside now looked like any other hillside, innocent as a woman's eyes, yet covering how much!
  • He saw the cataract of the Golden River springing from the hillside, scarcely five hundred feet above him.
  • When the last cannon shot echoed over the far hills Colonel Woodville turned away from the door of his hillside home.
  • A little way up this we found where the fox had been fast in some bushes but had freed himself and left and gone up the hillside.
  • The dwarfed oak on the rocky hillside is natural, but a poor thing compared with the beautiful tree found in the rich, moist bottom lands.
  • I shall carry my park up the hillside and plant on the highest point some pretty kiosque, whence, perhaps, my eyes may catch the shimmer of the Mediterranean.
  • But now, in his climbing on the steep hillside, his rifle was in his left hand, downhill, and his footing, caught as he was with one foot half raised, was insecure.