Meanings of sloping upwards in English

The trolley slowed down -the tunnel had started sloping upwards.

Wooden seats had been built in, sloping upwards to the tops of the walls.

Here we made out a cave, above which was a grassy declivity sloping upwards towards the summit.

It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.

At the further end there was an arched passage, sloping upwards till it reached an opening in the roof above.

Finding nothing in any of the lower spokes, they allowed these to collapse and began again with a new set, sloping upwards.

About midway in the canyon is a huge basin, like the old crater of a volcano, sloping upwards to the pine-fringed skyline.

I stood, and, measuring exactly its line of descent, stuck the butt of my spear into the ice with the point sloping upwards.

And now the ground was becoming steeper, sloping upwards, and after another two or three hundred yards it led at last to an obstacle.

"As I told you," Margaret continued, "he had a very strangely-shaped head, more curiously-shaped than I can describe-very long and sloping upwards to the back.