downhill
Example Sentences
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Before the building work started, the general was said to have rolled large boulders found at the summit - and ideally suit for construction - downhill.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Then things go downhill pretty quickly,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Of particular interest were deposits called turbidites, which can form when underwater landslides send large amounts of sediment rushing downhill.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
That mass of rock and ice plunged about 800 metres onto a debris-covered glacier, before surging downhill, briefly damming the Lhende River.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
“If I’d seen how far he’d gone downhill, I wouldn’t have stopped the process. Why? On what grounds? We didn’t know until he got to Boston that the cancer had invaded the vertebrae.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
