sloping

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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 to the gulf on the south, and protected from the winds on all other sides by lofty mountains, it enjoys an almost Egyptian warmth of climate.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)