SLOPING in a Sentence
Learn SLOPING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
170 example sentences for SLOPING, such as:
1. This is an area of gently sloping hills.
2. He ran up the slope to the top of the hill.
3. The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
4. The car could hardly get along on the slope.
5. The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her.
2. He ran up the slope to the top of the hill.
3. The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
4. The car could hardly get along on the slope.
5. The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her.
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Meanings and Examples of SLOPING
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sloping
a. having a slanting form or direction
a. having an oblique or slanted direction
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched.
2 Accordingly, he soon reached an open plat of turf, on the opposite side of which, a rock, rising abruptly from a gently sloping plain, offered its grey and weatherbeaten front to the traveller.
3 She looked round the whitewashed little bedroom with its sloping ceiling and gable window where the white curtains were closed.
4 You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east.
5 Eustacia was now among the number of the slain, though not on the floor, for she had managed to sink into a sloping position against the clock-case, so that her head was well elevated.
6 He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
7 Here there lies a grove of trees, marked as the 'Ragged Shaw,' and on the farther side stretches a great rolling moor, Lower Gill Moor, extending for ten miles and sloping gradually upward.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8 A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
9 Going towards the side I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time.
10 Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.
11 The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
12 But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
13 She commented upon the sloping roof of unplastered boards stained in brown rings by the rain, the uneven floor, the cot and its tumbled discouraged-looking quilts, the broken rocker, the distorting mirror.
14 In that sloping afternoon sunlight, the shadows that the three boats sent down beneath the surface, must have been long enough and broad enough to shade half Xerxes' army.
15 On the flanks it is cased with wood, and at top completely covered by a large, sloping, battened hatchway.
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 The Haddan School was built in 1858 on the sloping banks of the Haddan River, a muddy location that had proven disastrous from the start.
2 This is an area of gently sloping hills.
3 The car could hardly get along on the slope.
4 He ran up the slope to the top of the hill.
5 The box is too heavy to carry down the slope; we'll have to drag it down.
6 The coach careered down a slope and collided with a bank.
7 The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
8 The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.
9 We raced across a large field that skirted the slope of a hill.
10 The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her.
11 We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.
12 "Shucks! what do you want to slope for?" "Well, I am not used to that kind of a crowd."
13 This mountain slope contains slides that will challenge anyone, either expert or neophyte.
14 As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.
15 I want to plant the slopes of the hills with trees of economic value.