incline

Example Sentences

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Since then, for a host of complicated and mostly unforeseeable reasons, disparate circumstances across the region incline, slowly, in a promising direction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

In other words, investors may find it a lot more difficult to keep up if the incline gets steeper and steeper.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

I’m doing heavy resistance training, or I’m doing incline walking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

My legs are beginning to hurt though and there's that slight incline round the corner.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

This is not saying much, as the Giddy-Yap, Rainbow! books incline toward the cheerful.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood