STEEP in a Sentence

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102 example sentences for STEEP, such as:

1. It was a steep and jolty climb.
2. The plane went into a steep dive.
3. The road has a fairly steep gradient.
4. The plane started descending at a steep angle.
5. The steep rock seems to be growing at an angle.

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 Meanings and Examples of STEEP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
steep
 v.  soak; make thoroughly wet
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  She had lent him a hand to help him up a steep place.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
2  They followed the girl up some steep corner-stairs without meeting any one, and stopped in the dark while she went on for a candle.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  Thus urged, the Jew began to ascend the steep and narrow steps which led up to the gallery.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  It was a steep and jolty climb.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  Clifford was a heavy man: and the hill was steep.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  She came downstairs, down the steep, narrow wooden stairs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  Those surfaces were neither so steep as to be destructible by weather, nor so flat as to be the victims of floods and deposits.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
8  "And so Tamsin has married him at last," said Olly, when the incline had become so much less steep that their foot-steps no longer required undivided attention.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
9  Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10  A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
11  A dull light shone through heavy mullioned windows, and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep, high-angled roof there sprang a single black column of smoke.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
12  A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
13  The whole steep slope was covered with gray circular rings of stone, a score of them at least.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
14  Now we both rushed along the corridor and down the steep steps which led to Charles Street.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
15  They passed between the aromatic trunks, the snow breaking crisply under their feet, till they came to a small sheet of water with steep wooded sides.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  It was absolutely horrible going up the hills 'cos they were really, really steep.
2  It's a steep climb to the top of the mountain, but the view is worth it.
3  There was a steep climb on the road out of town.
4  The extension bridge is steep,so the tricyclist has to get off his tricycle and push it up.
5  The town is perched on the edge of a steep, precipitous cliff.
6  Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
7  The path's very steep, so be careful you don't fall.
8  When love beckons to you,follow him,though his ways are hard and steep.
9  The plane started descending at a steep angle.
10  The plane went into a steep dive.
11  It's a pretty steep learning curve when you're thrown into a job with no prior experience.
12  The whole team has been on a steep learning curve since the project began.
13  The road has a fairly steep gradient.
14  The steep rock seems to be growing at an angle.
15  The series of steep hills sapped the cyclists'strength.