slopes
Example Sentences
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ITHACA, N.Y.—On a drizzly Thursday, Cornell University students wandered into consulting recruitment sessions, hustled up the slopes to midterms and listened to a Pulitzer-winning fiction writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"We made our own paths on mountain slopes," he said, after returning to base camp in Pokhara on Tuesday night.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Researchers at the University of Montpellier's Laboratory of Geography and Land Planning have developed evacuation routes that account for slopes, obstacles, walking speeds, and potential bottlenecks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
All of the dwellings along the beachfront stretch sit on land that slopes toward the ocean, providing jaw-dropping views over the water.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
The sun hangs low in the distance, casting their snowcapped peaks in light shades of pink, and their wide, bare slopes in deep blue.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
