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
He pointed at what looked like six gigantic red tubes far below us, sloping downward with water frothing beneath them in the river.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
