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  • adjective superlative form of hilly: most hilly.

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Examples

  • “I started to take it easy the last couple of laps, trying to not make any mistakes,” said Trebon, who chose to ride a mud tread tire because of the loose, off-camber corners on the course, which he called the hilliest, along with Granogue, Delaware, that he’ll race all season.

    Ryan Trebon takes round 1 at the Cincinnati ‘cross festival 2010

  • Steep terrain rose on either side of the river, and residents boasted that they lived in the hilliest city outside San Francisco.

    Economic angst tops issues in Mass. town 2008

  • I was very proud to be in the 2003 Salford Harriers team which was not only the first non-Welsh Club to take the prize, but also took the Kings of the Mountains award, with Yours Truly on one of the six hilliest legs that count for that.

    Archive 2007-06-10 2007

  • And, of course, these "roads" (if you want to broadly apply that label) wind over, up and around some of the hilliest terrain this side of the Alps. At one point -- and I am not making this up -- my little Doom Sentra crested the top of a pitch-black hill unilluminated by street lights ... and the road dissolved onto a set of train tracks.

    makes. me. so. angry ... 2004

  • On the steepest and hilliest, the Teutonic Order put a castle, which now circumscribes the Estonian Parliament building, and is also being renovated and is thus inaccessible to non-Parliamentarians.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • That Boulogne road is one of the hilliest in France, and Susan was a nailer on hills.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • Belmouth was four miles off, and one of the hilliest four miles imaginable.

    Dick and Brownie Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

  • Early in the autumn of the past year, whilst on a visit to a German friend who resides in one of the hilliest and best-wooded districts in

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Various 1836

  • Would New York, the hilliest of the majors, follow that blistering path for a record on its own course?

    NYT > Home Page By LIZ ROBBINS 2011

  • This is the hilliest of the stages passing several of Sunday's climbs, like Berendries and Valkenberg.

    Podium Cafe Jens 2010

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