steeply
Adverb
Meaning
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
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The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.
How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.
the street rose steeply up to the castle
A 'bounce' is a slang term for a very hard/loud spike that follows an almost straight trajectory steeply downward into the opponent's court and bounces very high into the air.
A few kilometers south at Juniyah the approximately 1.5-kilometer-wide plain is succeeded by foothills that rise steeply to convert within convert from the sea.
Another commodity signaling serious problems ahead is oil, which has dropped steeply within the same time frame as copper, as we can we on the 6-month chart for light crude below.