Example sentences for: hilltop

How can you use “hilltop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This hilltop suburb 8 km (5 miles) southwest of Palermo boasts Sicily’s finest cathedral (12th-century) and one of the best medieval mosaic cycles in Europe.

  • Montmartre is really a hilltop village (“La Butte” to its residents), with narrow, winding streets and dead-ends.

  • Monte has been a fashionable hilltop town ever since wealthy merchants and exiled European aristocrats in the 19th century built their splendid quintas up here in the cool air above Funchal.

  • Abd-er-Rahman III built this hilltop fortress in the 10th century and gradually a settlement grew up around the walls.

  • When Celtic peoples crossed the Pyrenees in the first millennium b.c., they intermarried with the existing Iberian population and built a series of hilltop fort communities or citânias, the finest example of which is at Briteiros (see page 73).


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