How to Use knoll in a Sentence

knoll

noun
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  • The snow was wet and deep, and the tracks of those three wolves were all around on the knoll.
    — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
  • In one case, someone built a house on a knoll much above the street.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • The Aramai people led the way up a steep hill, on a trail that led to a knoll.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Maples and willows form walls on two sides and a knoll rises to the south.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The new space includes a stage, a grassy knoll and parking spots for food trucks.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The knob was a small rocky knoll, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichen.
    — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The house, built in 1998, sits high on a knoll with panoramic mountain and city views.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • The half-mile Snake Trail marks the beginning of a mild 650-foot climb up the east flanks of a knoll above the Dry Creek drainage area.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Hang out on the grassy knoll and watch passersby or catch the ships and yachts sailing on San Diego Bay.
    — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Inside the bowl, arguably the best seats were furthest away in a grassy knoll toward the back end of the venue.
    — Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Irish Leather by Memo Paris smells like a hike, too, albeit one on a windy, grassy knoll.
    — Jane Larkworthy, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
  • And the bell that Mill rang on Tuesday night was the death knoll for my Sixers fandom.
    — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • There are some seats in the front and a large grassy knoll where people sat on picnic blankets in the back.
    — Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • This home is built into the rocks on a small knoll, with its own private stairway on to the beach.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 15 May 2018
  • Walled and gated, the dramatic estate spans 2.65 acres at the top of a knoll.
    — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The second half of Among Us takes place across the street from the pier on a big, empty grassy knoll in Tongva park.
    — Catherine Womack, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 May 2018
  • The largest suite on the property, the prized three-bedroom dwelling sits on a knoll and comes with a kitchen and pantry and a living room.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • In contrast, Nike's photo has no grassy knoll in the foreground.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The big old trees on this knoll were spaced farther apart, and the saplings were fewer and farther between.
    — Suzanne Simard, Wired, 7 May 2021
  • The site is on a south-facing slope on a knoll next to tundra and lakes that drain into a river.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2018
  • The San Gabriels stood in the distance, a bank of cumulus clouds roiling above while palm trees swayed on a knoll.
    — Davy Rothbart, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Video from the meet shows Holly start from a grassy knoll and sprint past two other runners on her way to Laney.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • These knolls support forests of beech, maple and oak, as well as a gorgeous strain of native white pine.
    — Kristan Schiller, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The city’s Park Board welcomed a garden for Eden Park, on a high knoll near the old brick water tower.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Their dad, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, is standing on the grassy knoll.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The two sit on a grassy knoll propped up by a rudimentary wooden fence.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Shuster then walked, alone, to a grassy knoll near the curling venue in Gangneung, South Korea.
    — Sean Gregory/gangneung, Time, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Soft ridges sloped down to the water in a subtle cascade of rocky knolls and tundra pockets.
    — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
  • There are about a half-mile of trails and several overlooks on top of rocky knolls and under pitch pines and scrub oaks.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • Combines ran up and over knolls and ravines, harvesting wheat.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018

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