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.
She needs time in downhill mode, and lifts are the way to get it.
The loss of eye function is the result of a ‘downhill’ mutational change, a corruption or loss of the genetic information coding for eye manufacture.
Winter adds snowboarding, ice-skating, and cross-country and downhill skiing on the resort's groomed trails and ski slopes.
From here, I went steadily downhill and, when I was 19, I was sent to prison for theft, assault and numerous robberies.
‘I never want to look back on an album and think that that was the crowning moment and that everything has been downhill from there,’ adds Adrian.
With a few hours of ski lessons, many beginners catch on well enough to find themselves hooked for life on a downhill descent.
His moment of glory came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event.
Despite his life going downhill, he was still described by people who knew him as a gentle, placid, easy-going, amiable man.
A four-cylinder 77 BHP engine did most of the work, with a good downhill slope doing the rest.
So I did that, but the world is a great snowball rolling downhill and it never rolls uphill to unwind itself back to nothing at all and nonhappening. posted by Jim Chen at 11:40 PM A kiss is just a kiss
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand
The downhills offer little relief, as long leaping strides will send your quads into convulsions.
Out beyond the rain splashed plastiglass windows you could see Lake Managua spreading out a quarter of a mile downhill. Kahen no Ame
There are subtle inclines and subtler downhill slopes.
Until this ridiculous overemphasis on sprinting and short course competition is reversed, the United States is going to remain stuck on a long downhill slide in competing with the rest of the world.
He even overtook Denmark's Mickael Rasmussen, who had started out six minutes before him but had a disastrous ride on the tricky and technical route's sharp bends, fast downhills and tiring uphills.
She's gone downhill a lot quicker than her dad. The Sun
It had been downhill all the way after he was caught turning out 20,000 ecstasy tabs in Ma's kitchen - and with Ma's best pans, too.
In downhill skiing, your whole foot is secured in a binding on the ski; in cross-country, your heel is free, making it easier to glide along the flats and uphill.
There are a fair amount of details, such as snow in the bobsled run and mini-trees on the downhill slopes, which help create a sense of realism throughout the game.
And if you bonk on though ascents like these, the efforts taking your toll on your legs may well lessen your downhilling abilities too.
I started work as a journalist and it was downhill all the way for my health.
It was fast, mostly downhill, and mother nature was good enough to hold the rain off and afford us a light tailwind.
His stretch regimen consists of slope-specific variations on three standard yoga poses that loosen and strengthen the key muscle groups used by downhillers.
Downhillers can ride chairlifts to the top of Moose and Mystery mountains, then bomb down 35 miles of rocky singletrack.
From here it was basically downhill, though with occasional reprieves.
Shaped like a big horseshoe, this place starts with a bowled off mini ramp of sorts and runs downhill.
I'm going to make my fortune by selling out and making a reality TV show called Downhill From Thirty about my health misadventures.
Barnet had had chances in the first half, kicking downhill and with the wind, but failed to take them. Times, Sunday Times
I was approaching a fairly sharp bend that swept downhill to the left.
Things then went steadily downhill for the troubled Scot as he struggled to a demoralising 75 which leaves him in grave jeopardy of missing the cut.
Uphill, downhills, through rivers and through underbrush, this unknown Kiwi never faltered or stopped.
By then his career was on the up but a growing cocaine habit meant his personal life was going downhill. The Sun
His ninth career downhill title, tying him with Picabo Street as the winningest downhiller in U.S. history? USATODAY.com - Rahlves a downhill demon looking to make his own name
But it's all downhill from here ... The slippery slope 1.
We topped the pass as the first drops of rain fell, and then beat the storm in a reckless 20 kilometres downhill dash.
The terrain was the most difficult part, the downhills and uphills and the constant changing of pace.
The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter.
His moment of glory came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event.
You'll see it all from baggy shorted BMX grommies to super-light, Lycra-encased, cross-country man-machines, to fully-armored downhillers with bikes that look like motorcycles and weigh almost as much.
One of my major dislikes is bridges, especially on fast downhill descents.
Ski Sunday has entered BBC commentator and former international skier Graham Bell in a Skier X competition - a fusion of motor cross and downhill skiing!
The difficult part is learning the new computer codes after that it's all downhill.
So the one wheel skidded downhill without turning. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Once we get the preparation done, it'll be downhill all the way.
Perhaps the reason I prefer downhill skiing, luge, cross-country, speed skating, and other such sports in the Winter Olympics is that judging vagaries don't affect them.
As the local voice for bicyclists, RCR president Robin Craigen wanted to talk about accommodating the growing number of downhill or "freeride" bikers at the ski area. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Once the pride of India and a great showpiece to the world, Indian Railways has steadily gone downhill.
Bev coasted downhill on her bicycle.
Here you'll find another 40 km of trails, which interconnect with the downhill ski area.
I remain strong in summer, but go downhill in autumn and end up with copious amounts of clear mucus. Times, Sunday Times
Most beginning snowboarders find the learning curve faster than for downhill skiing, but don't plan on learning everything in one day.
Triple 2010 Olympic medalist Miller missed the World Cup finals with an ankle injury and finished 20th overall, 17th in downhill, 18th in super-G and fifth in super-combined. Lindsey Vonn wraps season with another weekly honor
The route is all downhill from here to the finish.
A winding road slopes downhill through a thicket of trees before looping once around a tiny manmade lake.
Four newly acquired acres allowed the club to stretch the par-4 17th to 495 yards, uphill and blind off the tee before it doglegs downhill to a green.
Grandma fell and broke her leg, and she went downhill quite rapidly after that.
By then his career was on the up but a growing cocaine habit meant his personal life was going downhill. The Sun
He begins on a false premise and goes downhill from there.
Although the snow on downhill and cross-country courses can look smooth on television, under the microscope snow crystals are jagged and have varying water contents.
I was hoping it would be a downhill slope from here, and I guess in a way, it is.
Unless it's a pro-level downhiller, it's much rarer for me to get a suspension tuning order from a pure cyclist.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand
I remain strong in summer, but go downhill in autumn and end up with copious amounts of clear mucus. Times, Sunday Times
The yard was as neglected as the rest of the property, the grass and bushes overgrown, the leaves unraked from the previous fall, which made the footing even trickier, especially since they were moving downhill. Whispers At Midnight
your performance has been going downhill for a long time now
But the amazing mountain scenery and death-defying speed of the downhillers kept viewers hooked on a wet and cold Sunday afternoon.
This gorgeous picture postcard scenery provides a backdrop for over 200 km of downhill and cross-country skiing trails.
A downhill frozen start continued to a long uphill drag through a muddy wooded section before turning into the wind, past the start for a second lap.
This part of the town used to be fashionable, but it's starting to go downhill.
Formerly landlord of the eponymous Comedian pub at Sunniside, the ever-buoyant Bob has gone downhill to Crook.
It was downhill in top gear now.
He explained that this area had a permanent offshore gale called the katabatic—Greek for flowing downhill. Deception Point
When skiing downhill the bindings are locked, and skins and crampons removed.
I remain strong in summer, but go downhill in autumn and end up with copious amounts of clear mucus. Times, Sunday Times
Henry knew exactly how it felt. After the discovery of the hedgehog the day slid steadily downhill.
Amongst other things you can: go up the mountain with gondolas, teleferics and chairlifts, come down the mountain with mountain karts, downhill mountain bikes… also trips on quads, trekking, horse-riding…
All too often the most dyspeptic views of modern Scotland come from expatriate Scots who rarely choose to travel north of the Border, yet know beyond a peradventure that the country has gone disastrously downhill ever since they left.
It was a typical women's downhill course: relatively low-speed, but extremely technical with tight corners.
This argues for the existence of a powerful set of accelerating forces in addition to the downhill obesogenic slope.
Keep to the lane as it bends left then right and it drops more steeply downhill.
BillKal The golden metalist in Alpine Skiing Downhill for the Winter Olympic Games 2010 is .... Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
So it's slow and ugly and now things really go downhill because thanks to the prop shaft and all the other rear-wheel-drive gubbins, there is no space in the back.
Master muddy downhills, hairpin turns and unexpected obstacles with the help of cyclocross pro Gina Hall.
running downhill, he gained a lot of speed
If hitting the ball uphill, you had to calculate how far back downhill it would roll, and at what angle.
So the one wheel skidded downhill without turning. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
A funicular railway scales the mountain to the jumping-off point for the sledge run, which winds five kilometres downhill back to the railway terminus.
It's pretty much downhill from there, with everyone speaking in moral platitudes and Hanks looking troubled.
Once you've gone down that road it is mostly downhill and getting steeper by day.
She swept up her dahlias with an ample gesture, pushed it open, and struck downhill for the nave.
According to my mother, downhill skiing was for rich people who didn't mind breaking their legs.
But he made one mistake just before a big jump, and one mistake in downhill is all it takes. USATODAY.com - Rahlves a downhill demon looking to make his own name
Skiers will only be allowed access to the downhill skiing slopes, while non-skiing visitors will be confined to the Ptarmigan centre.
There's downhill, slalom, cross-country and so forth.
The men had been in unknown country, chasing the boar uphill, when the rule is to chase downhill only.
Some downhillers tend to do that because that's the nature of the sport.
No wonder she is used to going downhill fast. The Sun
In the summers, Del Bosco competed in downhill mountain bike races. For ski cross racer Del Bosco, new sport offered a fresh start
Hey, we're cross country skiers, not downhillers.
Both circuits are very short at a mere three miles, with one catering for families and the other, with a stiffer climb and a good downhill, more suitable for experienced riders.
Day one is an uphill climb through beech forest, day two across the tussock high up, day three downhill through podocarps to the Heaphy River, and day four along the gorgeous West Coast beach with nikau palms alongside.
Most injuries occurred while the patients were engaged in downhill skiing or snowboarding.
Our legs were already starting to ache from the hard slog downhill all day. Archive 2008-10-01
He headed downhill towards the river.
If I can just get through the training period, it'll be all downhill from here.
I look at this place and think, ‘jeez, from the perfect acoustics and sightlines of the Roman amphitheaters, it's all been downhill from there.’
Downhill skiing requires ski lifts that frighten the chamois and clutter the mountains with pylons and cables.
There will be four disciplines: Downhill, super G, giant slalom and slalom.
Its condition steadily went downhill and it appeared that the scrapman would be a visitor.
He first tasted success in slalom events but has become a top downhiller, as well. USATODAY.com - Rahlves a downhill demon looking to make his own name
With all due respect to cyclo-cross and kamikaze downhill mountain biking, and every other mutation that two wheels have taken in recent years, this is what a bike was really intended for, no? Itineraries and Agendas: Bicycles at Work and Play
Firstly, it's the morning that I happen to severely sprain my ankle, landing badly on a tussock of grass as I trot downhill from my tent to the river below.
The directional arrow pointed to a downhill slope, surrounded in bushland.
Glancing back at Connie and yelling something I could not hear, he pushed off and schussed downhill like a knife, skis so close together I doubted you could fit a piece of paper between them. CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
All the reinforced fencing, railroad ties, and flying buttresses can keep the uphill from sliding downhill for only so long.
It can be used for telemark, backcountry touring, and downhill, and is not wedded to tracks because it is shorter, wider, and more stable than traditional cross-country skis.
The shoulders should always stay over the downhill ski.
The 6.5 mile trail offers a strenuous climb up Taylor Hill followed by a twisting downhill.
This is ideal for freeriding, heading to the trails, riding to the local downhill or the hike to school/college and beyond.
Overall have you ever had one of those days when things are neutral and then all of a sudden inside you everything goes downhill?
I think it's interesting because they're really two very different skiers," said downhiller Chemmy Alcott of Britain. USATODAY.com - Swede victory: Paerson captures elusive gold
Then, in the third and final leg, competitors skied downhill, through alpine-style gates, back to the Bergenhof. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
We parked downhill from the cottage and ambled over to the top of the falls.
Winter adds snowboarding, ice-skating, and cross-country and downhill skiing on the resort's groomed trails and ski slopes.
Unlike a normal fade or sliced shot, which will fly high and stop quickly on landing, a shot from a downhill lie will not. Christy O'Connor Junior's Golf Masterclass
On the downhills, the big, widely spaced cornering knobs cut through deep dust, greasy mud, or loose talus.
Yet somehow it also led straight downhill. Scottish Voices 1745-1960
Many of the top racers were also there, notably the Austrian downhillers hunting qualifying points for a place on their over-subscribed team for the following season.
Many of the top racers were also there, notably the Austrian downhillers hunting qualifying points for a place on their over-subscribed team for the following season.
Walking over obstacles, uphill and downhill walking either in free walking animals or simulated on a treadwheel augmented with positive or negative friction has been investigated in some detail.
Before your round, practice putting to nothing, and feel the pace of your putts by hitting uphill, downhill and sidehill.
Running downhill, a bowler is liable to bowl no-balls, overpitch and generally lose control. Times, Sunday Times
Other than that, the U.S. men have gotten off to a desultory start, with only diminutive 5-6 downhiller Andy Weibrecht, 23, distinguishing himself with 12th-place finishes last weekend in downhill and super-G. U.S. men's skiers start World Cup season on bumpy ride
Dorfmeister came into the race as the top-ranked World Cup downhiller this season and was first in one of three training runs. USATODAY.com - Austrian wins elusive downhill gold; Kildow 8th
She is on a downhill path. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
He falls for the babysitter, Belén, a pulsating nymphette who tells of how she wants her pornstar mother's lover for her own, and it all goes downhill from there - to murder, disappearance or wishful abandonment.
Despite his life going downhill, he was still described by people who knew him as a gentle, placid, easy-going, amiable man.
As she approached a sharp right-hand bend before turning downhill towards the finish, things suddenly looked decidedly dodgy. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Many of them simply practise vertical migration, going downhill in all directions and staying in the valleys. Times, Sunday Times
Some horses never completely catch up and stay built downhill, or what we call on their forehand, their whole lives.
It was about a half a mile downhill, with an absolutely beautiful view of the countryside, although it was always a bit harder to get back up again after a few pints.
On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed.
Perhaps a little too far, as it happens, as the downhill slope was fairly shallow and didn't even come close to hinting at the ferocity of the climb back up to the top.
Howard Black Elk, a pulaski held loosely in his downhill hand, walked down the line toward them. Firestorm
I used to really enjoy water skiing and downhill skiing - but not anymore.
The path plunged downhill at a near-sheer angle, with few hand or footholds, but a free-swinging knotted rope to hang on to.
I awoke in pain, still hung over from the Nembles, and from there I proceeded to stumble downhill.
Leave the Pennine Way at the road and turn right, following the road downhill for about half a mile until a gated track is reached on the right.
Now we are sharing a flat and it's all gone downhill. The Sun
Yorkshire began brightly against Durham at Scarborough yesterday but went downhill as the weather deteriorated.
We have uphill, downhill, sidehill lies and a tough last six holes. Times, Sunday Times
In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags.
Formations on sloping ground tended to stretch into oblong shapes with the longest dimension pointing downhill.
Away below a silvery stream snakes its way downhill, one of the hill's two Cleuch Burns that run down to feed the infant Clyde.
And over the holidays, I went downhill skiing for the very first time in my life.
What defines me as a downhiller is my determination and my need for speed. TIME.com: Top Stories
Left downhill on path alongside lane. Times, Sunday Times
We walked on, past sessile oaks and bilberry patches, downhill until we reached the valley.
One night last December in Beaver Creek, he was hanging out in the village plaza awaiting the announcement of the starting draw and handing out of race bibs for the next day's downhill race.
Now, consider that - on a good day with a downhill slope and the blessing of some higher power - the Rickshaw can hit 30 mph.
Going downhill can increase your risk of knee and calf injuries without care. The Sun
The trail eventually takes a few short and steep upturns, but for the most part just flows downhill like water.
The man tries to explain his state of mind by comparing it to going downhill on a snow sled, but Jonas does not know what sled and snow are.
What has made it able to deliver golfers in the way Wales unearths fly halves and Austria downhill skiers? Times, Sunday Times
Finally, we reached the downhill portion of the hike, towards Hanakapiai Beach.
The early afternoon sun was now baking my tired body as I cruised the rolling downhills listening to my IPod.
The word rankled deeply as he went downhill with his hands in his pockets, whistling determinedly. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
From this crucial presentation of misinformation, the text goes steadily downhill.
It was those instincts which undoubtedly contributed to her result in the downhill here in Turin, a race which took place in flat light on a tricky rolling course.
As the drama moved to a new timeslot on Thursday nights a year later, the storylines got darker, heavier and soapier and the ratings went downhill, from 9,7 million in 2003 top episodes attracted over 13 million viewers to dismal 5,6 million in 2006. Televisionista
A narrow stance, where the rear, downhill skate nearly traces the same path as the lead skate, makes it easier to steer them across and if necessary, up the hill to cut short your run.
This event features four racers at a time taking a downhill course full of jumps, turns and banked corners in a race to the finish.
Finally, mankind will be relieved from the tedious chore of downhill skiing. lansing wedding photographer Skiing Robot » E-Mail
I dropped a couple of tenths of a second in the first sector, but where I really lost time was Turn eight, the downhill left-hander.
And the next pages show the same downhill slide even under conditions of the most optimistic scenarios.
Better still, harness energy as you zip downhill to recharge the battery. Times, Sunday Times
He's been going slowly downhill since he came out of hospital.
It's a long walk back, but at least it's all downhill.
The route took the participants around a course which was a mixture of uphill and downhill slopes, cross country terrain and hard surfaces.
For some sports like downhill skiing and gymnastics, they're eight times more susceptible.
Tonight the blokes will brave a head-first downhill ride on the skeleton. The Sun
The sides are vertical, and the north edge undercuts the rock face so that those walking downhill toward the pit suddenly find themselves, without warning, looking at a 60-foot vertical drop into space.
Her music career certainly isn't going downhill. The Sun
Unfortunately, the rest of the cd goes downhill from there.
That would include Street, who rose from daughter of Idaho hippies to become an Olympic and world champion and the dominant female downhiller in the mid-1990s, and Kildow, the daughter of Minnesota lawyers who earned her first World Cup victory this winter and is the world's third-ranked downhiller. USATODAY.com - Kildow: USA's ski sensation in the making
The Japanese downhiller crashed yesterday after losing control of her bike as she hit a jump during practice.
When you're shooting downhill at 30 miles an hour, defying ice and moguls, it can be tough, hazardous and just plain stupid to try to decipher the myriad designer labels dotting the guy who's about to cut you off. Styles On The Slopes: The Good, The Bad And The U
On his 70th birthday, he spent six hours downhill skiing.
The 27-year-old American won the season's opening two downhills and finished third the last two races.

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