Meanings of sloping downward in English

The ground was sloping downward now, and becoming more and more like a rubbish dump.

The terrain was sloping downward now; lichen-spotted boulders lay strewn along my path like fallen meteors.

On a sloping downward course, they sped along like undersea rockets, their ion jets functioning perfectly.

We skirted the edge of this crowd and plunged into another passageway, sloping downward still more steeply.

The walk back along the ridge of the cliffs was easy, the ground sloping downward in our favour.

The eyes were almond-shaped, and slightly sloping downward and inward-deep ,passionateblue eyes set in a Mongolian head.

Dry earth extends back for 40 feet; then come clay and fallen rocks, sloping downward toward the rear.

A combined effort rested the butt on the support, the trunk sloping downward, until the top reached the ground, probably thirty feet away.

The Maoris seemed mostly to cut with a narrower scarf even than the Canadians, both upper and lower cuts sloping downward at a narrow angle.

The rocks and bowlders stopped abruptly, and they found at their feet, sloping downward at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees, a great, smooth plane.

Sloping downward toward the mighty stream, lie pasture, grove and field, gaily mingled together.