Having an oblique or slanted direction.
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Examples for "sloping "
1 Trials on different terrain showed lower emission factors on steeper, sloping land.
2 The writing was in a long sloping copperplate hand: Edward Montagu, Esq.
3 The queerly stunted trees dotted the sloping sides of this great desert.
4 She was taken down a sloping floor to the depressed central section.
5 On the sloping sides grew the golden corn and the tall rye.
1 Zoltan's thickly slanting letters, handwriting from over forty years ago, rushed forward:
2 The horseman turned and galloped across the park in a slanting direction.
3 The slanting rays of the morning sun were shining in his eyes.
4 I just went on to the next flight, slanting the opposite way.
5 A long slanting break in the cliff led upward to the left.
1 A slanted but shrewd look at another side of today's refugee crisis.
2 The light slanted across the Tennessee River and shimmered in the ripples.
3 The hole slanted downward, and the bullet was embedded in the porch.
4 Thin sunshine slanted in through the lace curtains of the dining-room window.
5 The dark-lashed eyes of the Mexican girls slanted his way in vain.
1 Try to diagonal back and forth as you work your way down.
2 In terms of his grand diagonal design, he was slightly off course.
3 SOCRATES: And that is the line which the learned call the diagonal .
4 The authors used diagonal quadratic discriminant analysis in a leave-one-out cross-validation scheme.
5 Radius is determined on the right side, by the dotted diagonal lines.
1 The pale winter sunlight was stealing in aslant through the low windows.
2 The great red bowsprit of an Australian clipper projects aslant the quay.
3 The sun was shining aslant upon the downs from over the sea.
4 When I say sure, they deposit him, aslant , onto the back pew.
5 The barrel of his rifle glinted aslant before his big red face.
1 Forest of Arden, which sloped gently but steadily toward the distant sea.
2 The forest was in a valley that sloped down to the sea.
3 Two of them were clearly argos, all long arms and sloped back.
4 The floor of the bathroom now sloped upwards steeply to the door.
5 The granite ledges sloped upward to meet the blue of the sky.
6 They were several acres in extent and sloped gently to the south-west.
7 The characters sloped the wrong way, and the envelope bore no postmark.
8 The steamers all sloped towards the water, and pointed down the stream.
9 Do not congregate or seek shelter in buildings beneath steeply sloped areas.
10 The floor of the trench is also sloped for purposes of draining.
11 The floor of the trench also is sloped for purposes of draining.
12 From this swamp the sand-hills sloped north and south to the stockade.
13 Sometimes the hills sloped away from us, then they closed in again.
14 From the coast the land sloped upward to a great rolling ridge.
15 Rowing downstream we found that the country sloped gently towards the mountains.
16 Just beyond the next rise, the ground sloped away from the road.
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slope Verb
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