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How to use the word hilly in a Sentence?

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Mississippi is extremely hilly, the entire state. Everywhere was a hill.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because it is a hilly area and there are a lot of trees the rescue teams kept looking till morning in case anyone is left behind but now all people have been accounted for.

Shankar Lal Saini

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Increased heavy downpours which may be due to climate change will definitely cause greater likelihood of more landslides in the hilly areas, it would be ... very important for the communities vulnerable to landslides to get warnings to enable them to survive.

Saleemul Huq

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Low-hanging clouds over the western and northern parts of the country, cool winds blowing from the Himalayan regions of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and snowfall in the hilly areas around Delhi have led to a sharp drop in the temperature.

Kuldeep Srivastava

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That part of Sinai is very hilly and a good 100 km (62 miles) from Israel, so if we have the means to surveil it from the border, it would be a feat that I would doff my hat to.

Uzi Rubin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The area is hilly along with canyons ... so the mud was created by the runoff ... and the debris flowing downhill.

Joe Sirard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For example, should people have piped drinking water? Everyone will say yes. But in India in 2001, 45,000 villages had populations less than 100, some of those villages are in hilly areas where they get perfectly clean drinking water from streams, so what is the objective? Is it to get drinking water from taps or just to get clean drinking water?

Bibek Debroy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Scarcity of potable water in this area has been a major problem because of the hilly but excessively dry landscape. That is why government thought it imperative to invest in this water collection and supply (system using) solar energy.

Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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