SLOPING in a Sentence

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170 example sentences for SLOPING, such as:

1. This is an area of gently sloping hills.
2. He ran up the slope to the top of the hill.
3. The car could hardly get along on the slope.
4. The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
5. The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLOPING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sloping
 a.  slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1  From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Accordingly, he soon reached an open plat of turf, on the opposite side of which, a rock, rising abruptly from a gently sloping plain, offered its grey and weatherbeaten front to the traveller.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  She looked round the whitewashed little bedroom with its sloping ceiling and gable window where the white curtains were closed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Eustacia was now among the number of the slain, though not on the floor, for she had managed to sink into a sloping position against the clock-case, so that her head was well elevated.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
6  He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
7  Here there lies a grove of trees, marked as the 'Ragged Shaw,' and on the farther side stretches a great rolling moor, Lower Gill Moor, extending for ten miles and sloping gradually upward.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
9  Going towards the side I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
12  But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  She commented upon the sloping roof of unplastered boards stained in brown rings by the rain, the uneven floor, the cot and its tumbled discouraged-looking quilts, the broken rocker, the distorting mirror.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  In that sloping afternoon sunlight, the shadows that the three boats sent down beneath the surface, must have been long enough and broad enough to shade half Xerxes' army.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
15  On the flanks it is cased with wood, and at top completely covered by a large, sloping, battened hatchway.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The Haddan School was built in 1858 on the sloping banks of the Haddan River, a muddy location that had proven disastrous from the start.
2  This is an area of gently sloping hills.
3  The car could hardly get along on the slope.
4  He ran up the slope to the top of the hill.
5  The box is too heavy to carry down the slope; we'll have to drag it down.
6  The coach careered down a slope and collided with a bank.
7  The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
8  The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.
9  We raced across a large field that skirted the slope of a hill.
10  The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her.
11  We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.
12  "Shucks! what do you want to slope for?" "Well, I am not used to that kind of a crowd."
13  This mountain slope contains slides that will challenge anyone, either expert or neophyte.
14  As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.
15  I want to plant the slopes of the hills with trees of economic value.