Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hilly
IPA transcription: [h'ɪli]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous
    Meaning: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"
Usage examples
  • The ground to the right--along the course of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers--was broken and hilly.
  • The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting-point, extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha.
  • In the open country and especially in hilly places laid bare by the wood-man's axe, the favourite sites are tufts of bracken, rock-rose, lavender, everlasting and rosemary cropped close by the teeth of the flocks.
  • There was no need to tell it; for, as Becky sat moaning and beating her breast on the fireless hearth, and the sympathizing neighbors stood about her, the sound of a horse's hoofs was heard, and the parson came down the hilly road like one riding for his life.