Meanings of slope downward in English

Still the bottom continued to slope downward at perhaps an angle of thirty degrees.

The movement made him slip a little, and she realized that the ledge must slope downward.

The stream seemed indeed to slope downward, and in a minute a dark line was visible ahead.

The land began to slope downward.

A long and rather gentle slope downward led to a valley filled with neat farm-houses and cleared patches.

There was no apparent slope downward, and distinctly none upward, so far as the casual observer might have seen.

Its slope downward from the midline was acute, giving the nasal bridge a high, angled shape, like a church steeple.

The glaciers are local in character, and comparatively few in number; they are confined to valleys having some general slope downward.

Some tunnels bore a distinct slope and he calculated that Pyke would follow the slope downward, hoping to reach a way out.

Ahead, and a little to their right, there was at last a slope : a slope downward and hummocks of rock on each side.

They slipped through the cloaking gloom like wraiths come from the trees of the forest, following the line of the cradling slope downward.

Indeed, the ground seemed to slope downward for a long stretch, then tilt upward again, as if someone had carved out an enormous ditch.

The foreground was a slope downward to a little valley where the usual limbless tree-trunks were standing in a grove that had been thoroughly shelled.

Duncan followed him into another hallway, which also curved and sloped downward.

The pathway sloped downward and then took a sharp turn.

The roof, too, sloped downward until it occasionally scraped the crown of his sombrero.