sloping

Example Sentences

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Sloping down a dusty hill toward the Upper Newport Bay, where recreational enthusiasts share a path that runs alongside the marshy water, is a chain-link fence that separates public land from a sprawling bay-view property.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Sloping streets wind up and around town — oftentimes I’d end up where I started without knowing how.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2019

Sloping down the runway with a sly smirk and wearing a tan suit over a polo shirt, the French model and inveterate goofball Felix Gesnouin was Richie Tenenbaum to the life.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2015

And the poet John Heath-Stubbs pulled no punches with his feelings for the area around Land's End: "This is a hideous and wicked country,/ Sloping to hateful sunsets and the end of time."

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; Ð opposed to declivous.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah