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US
/ˈdaʊnˈhɪɫ/
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ADVERB
-
toward a lower or inferior state
your performance has been going downhill for a long time now -
toward the bottom of a hill
running downhill, he gained a lot of speed
ADJECTIVE
- sloping down rather steeply
NOUN
- the downward slope of a hill
- a ski race down a trail
How To Use downhill In A Sentence
- Xmas hurtles at us like a skateboarding troll trundling downhill - it's big, impressive, but to be viewed with a certain trepidation by those in its path. Toys R Us - Military Sword & Sorcery is coming ("#### Harry Potter! Daddy, where's my axe?")
- The trails should provide a skiing flow so there aren't too many long uphills or sharp turns at the bottom of steep downhills.
- It decreed last year that downhill courses were to be made slower and skiers required to wear less aerodynamic outfits. Times, Sunday Times
- The wedge or snowplow is often one of the first downhill maneuvers a skier learns, but it is not easy to do.
- I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
- Watching the top downhillers, you are struck by their size: they tend to be big, muscular and solid.
- Vancouver - Weather conditions were improving ahead of the men's downhill at Whistler Creekside Monday in good news for organizers who have had to rejuggle their Olympics alpine ski programme. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- Intermediate snowboarders competed in the intermediate events immediately following the downhill skiers.
- The downhills were far more punishing than I thought they would be.
- A cute pattern developed: we'd hit a downhill, and all the people just behind us would pass us.