slope

[sloʊp]

Definition:
1. An elevated geological formation.
2. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal.
3. Be at an angle.

Use 'slope' in a sentence:

1. The street must have been on a slope.
2. There is a place even higher than Everest, with a gentle three-degree slope that you could stroll up.
3. We raced across a large field that skirted the slope of a hill.
4. Huck said: "Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope."
5. He looked up the slope of land that rose from the house.
6. He wonders why the digits on his calculator slope to the right.
7. Large logs came rolling down the slope.
8. We slithered down the slope to the road.
9. Rainfall had dislodged debris from the slopes of the volcano.
10. Saint-Christo is perched on a mountain slope.
11. The rate is determined by intrinsic qualities such as the land's slope.
12. It stood there on buckled wheels, wheezing and gasping with exhaustion from having to climb up the gentle slope to the camp, and I consigned myself and my loads to it with some fear.
13. The slopes are colonized by flowering plants.
14. Many slopes are rock fields with sparse vegetation.
15. What do you want to slope for?
16. The development of the oil field on the North Slope of Alaska and the construction of the Alaska pipeline are examples of the great expense and difficulty involved in new oil discoveries.
17. The bank sloped down sharply to the river.
18. The slope is too steep for us to climb.
19. His handwriting slopes backwards.
20. As snow accumulates on a steep slope, it reaches a critical point at which the slightest vibration will send it sliding into the valley below.
21. The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
22. And look at the slope of the roof, the steep angle helps keep off all that rain and snow that accumulates in the winter.
23. Variables included the slope of the land, the ability of the pavement to support the load.
24. Standing on the edge of the slope, Heidi waved her hand, her eyes following Clara till she had disappeared.
25. Suddenly I was cartwheeling down the slope, all orientation gone.
26. Then he got up, brushed off the seat of his jeans, and headed slowly down the slope.
27. The transition from forest to treeless tundra on a mountain slope is often a dramatic one.
28. She watched his slow progress down the steep slope.
29. The car can't come up, as the slope is so steep.
30. The horses laboured up the steep slope.
31. He was scrabbling for a foothold on the steep slope.
32. There were two passes over 13,000 feet but the slopes were gentle.
33. The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape.
34. After a mile, the slope steepened.
35. We slid down the grassy slope.
36. The town is built on a slope.
37. The path slopes steeply uphill.
38. The garden sloped gently downwards to the river.
39. The slope of this linear fitting equation is 0.432 cm/sheet.
40. From the slope below, the wild goats bleated faintly.
41. He put the jeep in four-wheel drive and splashed up the slope.
42. The floor was level, but the ceiling sloped toward his head.
43. The water had raced down the slope and scoured out the bed of a stream.
44. The slope increases as you go up the curve.
45. They got bored waiting for him and sloped off.
46. The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes.