declivity

Now we were east of the trail, meandering across a treeless declivity with no obvious route at our feet.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

Fires in the region often start in this steep and inaccessible declivity, served by a single main road that meanders alongside the water.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 2020

We all spilled out of the car, tumbling down a small declivity covered in goose poop.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018

A sharp declivity separated the rear of the patrol from those farther up the hill.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2012

Siddhartha wandered along a strange, twisted path of this last and most base declivity through the game of dice.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Tucked into this landscape are hidden canyons, plunging declivities formed by water and wind, spots the novelist Denis Johnson once referred to as the “secrets of the horizons,” and today I am heading for one.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2012

He knew, in Yeats' phrase, their dark declivities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dragging their mountain artillery through profound snowdrifts, up incredible declivities, they slowly encircled Rombak Heights, moving patiently from crag to crag to blast German machine-gun nests on crags opposite.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Gigantic aloes with broad spiked blades and towering stalks stud the rocky declivities, and the cactus, wild fig, and other sub-tropical forms of plant-life lend character to the scenery.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck