Example sentences for: hilltop

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

  • The rugged coast continues south for another 65 miles (105 km) along to San Simeon, where William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate immortalized by Orson Welles in the film Citizen Kane, built his unbelievable dream castle on a hilltop high above the sea.

  • Take the pretty excursion up on a hill across the river to Sassi, 10 km (6 miles) east of Turin, to see Juvarra’s Baroque masterpiece, the splendid domed Basilica di Superga completed in 1731 and the hilltop view of Turin, the Alps, and the Po Plain.

  • Felanitx is the starting point for a bracing trip to Castell de Santueri, a ruined hilltop castle that was fortified by every ruler from Roman times to the 17th century.

  • Crowning a hilltop about 3 km (2 miles) west of the city center, the 2,000-year-old Buddhist shrine of Swayambhunath can be seen from all over the valley.

  • 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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