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• Two 4-4-0s were steaming through the scenic foothills, giving rides to tourists.From the entry steaming
• This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.From the entry American
• From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.From the entry flyspeck
• Introduction to California Birdlife describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and deserts.From the entry birdlife
• AG7 is located on the eastern side of Zuojhen Fault in western foothills.2017, Ricky Kao, Cheinway Hwang, Jeong Woo Kim, Kuo-En Ching, Frédéric Masson, Wen-Chi Hsieh, Nicolas Le Moigne, Ching-Chung Cheng…. From the entry Zuojhen
• Ruby recognised his discomfort talking about whether they might actually be in the foothills of a relationship.2009, Bernadette Strachan, How to Lose a Husband and Gain a Life, page 221. From the entry in the foothills
• We seemed in the foothills of a fabulous conversation when quite suddenly he was asleep.2002, Arthur Nevis, Lares, page 12. From the entry in the foothills
• A friend of mine boasts how his company broke the ban on subdivisions in the foothills.1989, Mort Rosenblum, Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America, New York, N.Y.: Morrow, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry salami-slice
• It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 841. From the entry konak
• Elsewhere over large areas of the plateau and the foothill regions, the qanat irrigation cultures were weakened considerably.1988, Keith Stanley McLachlan, The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran. From the entry qanat
• Our first stop is in Antu County, Kirin Province, a rugged and hilly extension of the Changpai foothills.1972, Chi Hsin, “Where the Sunghua River Flows”, in The Seeds and Other Stories, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 145. From the entry hilly
• When we look back at this time, I think we all realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.2026 May 22, Demis Hassabis, 5:40, in I/O 2026 Keynote. From the entry singularity
• On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141. From the entry tier
• And trails, nestled in the foothills of the island’s Central Mountain Range, either snake up to the peaks or hug the water’s natural contours.2013 November 5, Cain Nunns, “Resort by a Lake, Fit for a Generalissimo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Central Mountain Range
• The Gray Clan held the longest range from two snowcaps east of Solstice Mountain to the shallow foothills midway into the westlands.2010, Robert Stanek, In the Service of Dragons. From the entry westland
• The transition from Sonoran desertscrub to foothills thornscrub begins on desert inselbergs north of Hermosillo and higher areas east of the Sonoran Desert.2006, Thomas R. Van Devender, The Sonoran Desert Tortoise: Natural History, Biology, and Conservation. From the entry thornscrub
• The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin.1998, Angela Sheng, “Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD”, in Asia Major, volume 11, number 2…. From the entry Jo-ch'iang
• The wall, from the Ming period, which is still intact, stretches south-westwards to the foothills of the Qilianshan and approximately northwards to the Beishan.1993, China (Insight Guides), 2nd edition, Singapore: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 231. From the entry Beishan
• As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber.1989, Thomas Weber, Hugging the trees: the story of the Chipko movement, page 18. From the entry sal
• The peaks are beautiful alpine, snow-capped, cloudwashed things, but often the skier stays in the foothills and the passes, more convenient though less spectacular.1949, Joan Landman, David Landman, Where to Ski: Ski Guide to the U. S. and Canada, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1949, page 157. From the entry cloudwashed
• Genipap is wild and cultivated in many parts of the Amazon, especially on floodplains, from the river's mouth to the Andean foothills in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.2023, Nigel Smith, Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1109. From the entry genipap
• They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3. From the entry loess
• There should be no reason for these large and highly toxic amphibians to exist in Chaotun, a township in the foothills of Taiwan's central mountain range.2021 December 6, “Taiwan rushes to contain sudden cane toad invasion”, in France 24, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2021. From the entry Central Mountain Range
• The population is concentrated in two segments: the corridor along the northern foothills of the Tengri Tagh and the arcs of oases to the south of the Tengri Tagh.2014, Susan M. Walcott, Corey Johnson, editors, Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection: From the South China to the Caspian Sea, Routledge…. From the entry Tengri Tagh
• The tea garden lay in the foothills of Bhutan and got its name from the many palash trees that stood tall among the undulating green sea of tea bushes.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee. From the entry palas
• I took the bus to Artush, which was about sixty miles to the north, and got off at a pass in the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.2009, Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius, “A Feather Fell Down From One Angel”, in Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with…. From the entry Artush
• In the far northeast of India, on the great plains south of the foothills of the Himalayas, lies the ruins of a vast and ancient city.2009, Bipin Dimri, Pataliputra: The City of Five Empires. From the entry Northeast India
• In the Philippines, the principal malaria vector is Anopheles minimus var. flavirostris, a night-biter which breeds in slow-flowing, partly shaded streams that abound in the foothill areas.2008, Vicente Belizario Jr., “Epidemiology of Malaria in the Philippines”, in Gisela P. Padilla Concepcion, Eduardo A. Padlan, Caesar…. From the entry night-biter
• As they entered the foothills they came upon a dusty old diligence with six horses in the traces grazing the dry grass in a fold among the barren scrag.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or The Evening of Redness in the West, Vintage International, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry scrag
• The girasole can not become a competitor of the potato in such regions as the mountains of Colorado, but it thrives along the foothills and on the plains.1918, T. D. A. Cokcerell, “The girasole or Jerusalem artichoke, a neglected source of food”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 6, page 265. From the entry girasole
• Colonel Allen sat transfixed in his jeep, reminiscing as Charlie Company's Jody cadence gradually receded; echoing and re-echoing through honeysuckled foothills he had once traversed as a young officer candidate.2003, William Howard Graley, Of Silent Parades, page 209. From the entry jody cadence
• I usually think about how those majestic peaks rise gloriously out of the flat regime of the valley with nary a foothill before lofting swiftly into their craggy, boulderous heights.1999 December 19, Jeffrey Johnson, “Free Sex Links!! 3354”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet). From the entry boulderous
• Ho-t’ien is situated in southwestern Sinkiang just below the northern foothills of the Karakorem Range and near the upper reaches of a water course, the Ho-t’ien or South Ts’ung-ling River.1966 [1637], Sung Ying-Hsing, translated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun, Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung…. From the entry Yü-t'ien

Meaning of foothill

1. noun A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.

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How do you use foothill in a sentence?

Foothill is used as a noun. For example: “Two 4-4-0s were steaming through the scenic foothills, giving rides to tourists.”

What is a short sentence with foothill?

“This is pure American powder from the foothills of Colombia.”

What does foothill mean?

Foothill means a hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.