Sentence examples for formidable hills from inspiring English sources

We made sedate progress around the trail, which has several small but formidable hills.

In the annual Triple Challenge urban triathlon, contestants will take on the park's smooth but formidable hills and curves.

By 1930, 30 ascensores had been built to shuttle residents up and down Valparaíso's formidable hills; about half still function.

Instead, I alternated between pursuing a regular Turkish childhood — I played in the streets till it was dark and lounged around eating salted sunflower seeds with my friends, piling up formidable hills of discarded shells — and reading.

Instead, I alternated between pursuing a regular Turkish childhood—I played in the streets till it was dark and lounged around eating salted sunflower seeds with my friends, piling up formidable hills of discarded shells and reading.

When Ms. Rice emerged as a leading candidate for secretary of state after Mr. Obama's re-election, Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, became one of her most formidable opponents on Capitol Hill.

"Americans have always been suspicious of standing armies, ever since we fought the British redcoats," says a spokesman for the National Guard Association, one of the more formidable lobbies on Capitol Hill.

That the legislation was passed by the House on a voice vote and was opposed by only one senator -- Ernest F. Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat who is a longtime job protectionist -- underscored the technology industry's formidable influence on Capitol Hill.

My uncle, Carl Arnold, was a formidable lobbyist on Capitol Hill.

Channing Tatum and Hill are a formidable comedic partnership (especially in their various scenes on drugs – see below).

Mr. Hill made a formidable team of this ill-matched pair by balancing Pascoe's reflective intelligence with Dalziel's blunt pragmatism.