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How To Use slope In A Sentence

• She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
• The garden sloped gently downward to the river.
• After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
• The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
• Statistical analysis for significant difference in the slope of mutant induction in the presence or absence of vanillin was performed using the f-test for comparison of slopes.
• The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
• I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
• It is generally longer than it is wide and its floor slopes downwards towards a junction either with another valley or a plain.
• Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
• A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat.