This page shows Slope in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like slant or lean. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Slope in a sentence
Related words
Slope meaning
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points lying on the line.
Example sentences (20)
There is a delightful passage in the middle of the book where Bernie and Chet ski down a double black diamond slope.
Taken together, the three court decisions mark a slippery slope for employers and carriers, the defense lawyers said.
Western Slope residents especially look forward to fall, when the heat breaks and DeBeque Canyon sends a cool breeze.
Along its banks, a slope of open granite disappeared into the water, which quickly turned into a silvery layer of ice.
Hence, having legislators change hunting seasons and dates might be considered by some to be a slippery slope.
Dunleavy hopes to pursue carbon capture projects in the oil and gas basins of the Cook Inlet and North Slope.
This young man had “traveled down the slippery slope of addiction and destruction,” according to Elder K. Brett Nattress.
Extensive searches took place after the incident, which happened on the east slope of Mount Hakuba Norikura.
Plans have been revealed for a 275-kilovolt electricity substation in Mid Argyll, on the up-slope of an existing facility.
Those discussions could include anchoring bolts into the ground or spraying a sort of cement layer on the slope as support.
What will be interesting to see is how steep the downward slope of the nutritional value actually is for each storage type.
Does that mean we can put him in a human sized hamster ball and roll him down a double diamond ski slope?
The expansion project includes a unique oak-hickory-rich cove along a north-facing slope that harbors an array of wildflowers.
It doesn’t have much range, but once you are at the bottom of the slope, there’s a metal garage with the same code as the pods.
The Willow Project is the name for a proposed new oilfield in Alaska’s North Slope near the Arctic Sea.
There's also a Slope switch that can be activated to take into account the angle of the terrain between yourself and the target.
The suspect then allegedly strangled Liu until she was unconscious, prosecutors said, before pushing her down the slope as well.
There is a technical rope rescue course being held this month that teaches members on conducting over the bank/low slope rescues.
For most of July, a high-pressure system brought warm temperatures to the Western Slope that also kept conditions dry, Bealo said.
He then came up to me and I pushed him back - but our pathway is on a slope and it had been snowing.
Common combinations with slope
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the slope 46×
- western slope 32×
- slippery slope 28×
- slope of 23×
- slope and 11×
- north slope 9×
- slope in 9×
- slope at 9×
- slope is 8×
- steep slope 7×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word slope. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.