steep
Example Sentences
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Despite the day’s steep decline, Peabody Energy stock is still on pace to finish March with a 13% gain.
From Barron's
“The other one is an outcome of probably stark and steep recession.”
That means companies now have to pay increasingly steep rates to get protection against threats such as missile strikes.
Massive yuccas and barrel cacti stud its steep slopes.
From Los Angeles Times
The price of Brent crude has been bouncing around north of $100 a barrel, though U.S. shale blends trade at a steep discount in part because they are more costly to refine.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
