Hilla

[ hil-uh ]

noun

1. a city in central Iraq, south of Baghdad.

Hilla

/ ˈhɪlə /

noun

1. a market town in central Iraq, on a branch of the Euphrates: built partly of bricks from the nearby site of Babylon. Pop: 364 000 (2005 est) Also calledAl Hillah

Example Sentences

“I just felt like I had to do something — I thought I’d go crazy if I didn’t have some part in this,” said Hilla Shtein, 49, of Tel Aviv, a human resources manager who goes to the plaza several times a week to work a stand where visitors can make a donation and pick up hats, sweatshirts and buttons that say “Bring them home NOW.”

From New York Times

These and something like another 450 images fill “Bernd & Hilla Becher,” a fascinating, frankly gorgeous show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From New York Times

Max filmed Bernd and Hilla unloading their heavy-duty equipment, still much as it was in Victorian times, from a classic Volkswagen camper of the 1960s.

From New York Times

"We could be millions strong today," said Riyadh Husseini, 42, a manual labourer from the southern town of Hilla who travelled to Baghdad and slept on the street overnight in front of the podium where he hoped Sadr would appear.

From Reuters

Such fellow participants as Bernd and Hilla Becher or even Lewis Baltz, the artist most closely allied with Adams, took serial photographs that might be forensic evidence in a prosecutorial suit.

From New York Times