sloping downward
Example Sentences
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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
After a while, they noticed that the ground seemed to be sloping downward, though the trees were as thick as ever.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
The ground was sloping downward now, and becoming more and more like a rubbish dump.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
