sloping downward
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The authors trace two diverging trend lines: one upward-sloping, for people, and one sloping downward, for everything else.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
A depression is a furrow, a valley, a sloping downward, and a return.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
Instead of sloping downward to the toe the heel of the Earth Shoe is approximately one-half inch lower than the forward part.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ground was sloping downward now, and becoming more and more like a rubbish dump.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
His back is purplish-brown in the dim light, sloping downward from the gentle hump of his shoulders.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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