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sloping

Speech parts

1. sloping - Noun

2. sloping - Adjective

3. sloping - Verb

5. sloping - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Slope

Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. Leigh Hunt

Virtue refuses facility for her companion ... the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of a good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. Michel de Montaigne

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth. Edward Burnett Tylor

O cool glad pasture; living tree, tall corn, Great cliff, or languid sloping sand, cold sea, Waves: river curving; you, eternal flowers, Give me content, while I can think of you: Give me your living breath! Back to your rampart, Death! Harold Monro

Working the deltoid muscles along the front and top will give you everyday lifting power and help eliminate sloping shoulders, making your waist appear thinner. Denise Austin

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. Wendell Berry

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