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Sentence Examples Driving blind, he came over the hill to find his ball on a gorse-infested slope. Pits that run horizontally into a hill slope or cliff following material into the slope are known as adits or drift mines. It was located within the wall, on the lower slope of the acropolis, not far from a series of cisterns for collection of water. The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm. After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction. The original watercourse was blocked by the scree slope we had just climbed over, and now the water disappeared into a scary narrow fissure. He let the slope on the driveway pull him down to the level pavement, juddering over the stony concrete. Adjacent to the cove is the wall, which drops to 50m before becoming a sandy slope. Without benefit of poles or much of a slope, I waggled my arms back and forth to get going. The helices have a radial slope and converge at the intracellular bundle narrowing. You also want to be sure you don't set up your trailer and the generator in an area that might be subject to washouts or runoff from a slope. This problem with the sediment trap technique is probably restricted to the continental slope and shelf and will not occur over abyssal depths. For shelter, the Byzantine occupantslived in houses and caves built into the western slope of the acropolis. The ground angled suddenly upward, and he staggered as the abrupt slope surprised him. A ski slope, like the old Astroturf at Veterans Stadium, is the place knees go to die. Two of the raceways will have a 1-percent slope, while the other pair will have a 2-percent slope, to check the effect of slope and flow on algal production. Nobody else thought that his patch, on a 60-degree angled slope, was viable as a vineyard. Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism. The orographie impact of the Andean Cordillera can be seen clearly, enhancing rainfall on the east slope and forming a rain shadow on the west slope. Halfway up the slope Kevin's legs finally gave way and he collapsed. Show More Sentences Since the camp was placed to best advantage on a hill or slope near the river, the naval base was usually outside its walls. The state archives were kept in a structure on the slope between the Roman Forum and the Capitoline Hill. One of the most distinctive and famous features of the Lord's ground is the significant slope across the field. If a slope was available, troops were deployed along the rear side for protection. The wall goes up the western slope to a stone tower and then down the southern slope. It stands, as he wished it, on the southwestern slope of Calton Hill, in the Old Calton Cemetery. The slope is the outer part of the platform, connecting the reef with the basin. Aircraft had to approach these from certain directions and this led to the development of aids for directing the approach and landing slope. The foot of the continental slope is determined as the point of maximum change in the gradient at its base. The generally south slope and southern coast make for mild and wet climate, and there is a great deal of good pasture. A track rising along the top of the slope immediately under Salisbury Crags has long been a popular walk, giving a view over the city. When the mass of snow and ice is sufficiently thick, it begins to move due to a combination of surface slope, gravity and pressure. The tide was full and the dingey was off keel. The punt nosed the pebbly slope like a terrier, but her stern swung clear. Dunes move downstream as the upstream slope is eroded and the sediment deposited on the downstream or lee slope in typical bedform construction. The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is seafloor spreading and the continental slope. Open-handed, he walked steadily down the slope, stepping over the crumpled bodies on the blood-damp grass. Below the slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain. The character of the shelf changes dramatically at the shelf break, where the continental slope begins. In the latter case, the method of interpolation affects the reliability of individual isolines and their portrayal of slope, pits and peaks. The orientation of the numerical text labels is often used to indicate the direction of the slope. Show More Sentences The present continental slope in the Norwegian Sea marks the border between Norway and Greenland as it stood approximately 250 million years ago. This continental slope contains rich fishing grounds and numerous coral reefs. As the ice melted, rebound of the crust lagged behind, producing a regional slope toward the ice. Flashlights in hand, they made their way down the slope and racqueted out upon the lake. The slope was challenging for even the most experienced climbers. Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind. The catchment area is the slope of a great mountain range covered with fine forests, and there are many good reservoir sites. A catstep is a narrow, back-tilted terrace or bench on a grassy slope, formed when a hillside slumps beneath its own weight. The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. To achieve straight crossrows, you will need guide lines so that you can align the trees up and down the slope. The dike slope reduces the energy of the incoming sea, so that the dike itself does not receive the full impact. Patch reefs are hilllike reefs that often occur in sandy lagoon areas or on the upper reef slope of gently inclined fringing reefs. The surface of the holotype bears seven rounded annulations which slope very slightly orad from the venter. I think basing your actions off an assumption like that is a slippery slope that is going to get you in trouble. The outer continental shelf and slope may be cut by great submarine canyons, which mark the offshore continuation of rivers. Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation lines. The kick-step she'd used to make steps out of the play area, was necessary to keep from sliding while walking across a slope. The boundary of the hills is clearly defined on the north west side by the scarp slope. The dip slope is by definition more gradual, and merges with the landscape to the south east. There is plenty of evidence of chalk extraction on the Downs particularly along the scarp slope. Show More Sentences Much of the historic Pilgrims' Way still survives at the foot of the scarp slope and this has been joined much more recently by the M20 motorway. Applications of differential calculus include computations involving velocity and acceleration, the slope of a curve, and optimization. After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood. Submarine canyons transport sediment from beaches and rivers down the upper slope. The surface then experiences a down slope, in the direction that the equipotential has risen. This slope and its surrounding seamounts are the spawning ground for sardine, anchovy, and horse mackerel. Looking up the slope from below to the first hairpin bend, the granite basement on which the Graafwater formation rests is visible. The top is grassed and it is assumed that the tumulus was built from stones on the north slope. Benthic fishes are likely to be found, and are more diverse, on the continental slope, where there is habitat diversity and often food supplies. Blue whiting are found in the open ocean and above the continental slope at depths between 100 and 1000 meters. From the N, the cape appears as a mass of red sand with a gradual slope towards the sea. It lives close to the bottom in muddy areas on the continental shelf and slope. Albatrosses are highly efficient in the air, using dynamic soaring and slope soaring to cover great distances with little exertion. Thus, impacting roads, pipelines and buildings, as well as water distribution, and cause slope failures. Chalk hills, known as chalk downland, usually form where bands of chalk reach the surface at an angle, so forming a scarp slope. There is reputed to be a wishing well on its southern slope, which requires the wisher to climb up from the south without looking back. One of the visible topographical manifestations of a very slow form of such activity is a scree slope. In some cases, the slump is caused by water beneath the slope weakening it. This results in a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of resistant strata, called caprock. They hid their cavalry in the woods and stationed their infantry on the reverse slope of the bank. Show More Sentences A tomb was built for Zheng He at the southern slope of Cattle Head Hill, Nanjing. The Paraguyan uplands have other woodland slope ecosystems, notably, those dominated by Anadenanthera colubrina on moist slopes. Northwestern coasts are tall and rocky but the slope is much weaker at the southeastern side. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves. Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing. At this point the solubility curve changes slope, and the solubility becomes almost independent of temperature. Most adits are designed to slope slightly upwards from the entrance so that water will flow freely out of the mine. Locke avoided tunnels almost completely on the Grand Junction but exceeded the slope limit for six miles south of Crewe. This barrier adds stability to the reclaimed slope by preventing spoil from slumping or sliding downhill. Total revenue has its maximum value when the slope of the total revenue function is zero. Second the slope of the marginal revenue curve is twice that of the inverse demand curve. Thus the total revenue curve for a competitive company is a ray with a slope equal to the market price. Parallel drainage patterns form where there is a pronounced slope to the surface. The process of nivation follows, whereby a hollow in a slope may be enlarged by ice segregation weathering and glacial erosion. Like the alpine tree lines shown above, polar tree lines are heavily influenced by local variables such as aspect of slope and degree of shelter. On the northern slope near the source of Newlands Beck is Dalehead Tarn, while the smaller Launchy Tarn lies near the top of High Scawdel. From below this appears to be the summit, but disappointment awaits anyone so deceived by the convex slope. Starting at the shores of Crummock Water in the west, the same is achieved by a single slope of scree in less than a quarter of the distance. Below Threefooted Brandreth on the eastern slope, sitting on a shallow saddle above Mere Ghyll is the Litt's Memorial. On the northern slope of Threlkeld Knotts, not far above the large quarry, are the remains of an Iron Age settlement. Show More Sentences From the south, the ridge track from Great Dodd leads straight up the long gentle slope to the top. For example, given a truly vertical rock wall above a very steep slope, one could count just the rock wall or the combination. The panorama is excellent, improved immeasurably by the steep final slope and lack of foreground. The eastern arm of Swirl How leads down the stony slope of Prison Band to the depression at Swirl Hawse. A cuesta is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other. Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs. Their speed depends upon the density of the current, the volcanic output rate, and the gradient of the slope. Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar are both formed of carboniferous limestone and dip gently towards the east with a steep western scarp slope. The calibration yields a value for the standard electrode potential, E0, and a slope factor, f, so that the Nernst equation in the form. We walk the service road, past the stables, up the slope, to where the watermill stands. The camera angle changed as the videographer slid closer across the slope until the ski patroller trying to calm Ali was filling the frame. Below its nearly slateless cow-sheds and tumbling iron-gated piggeries, a steep slope drained liquids from all ordure down to the pretty river. Syenite hears the distant sough of waves rolling against rocks, somewhere below the slope on which they lie. William Moss hulked spraddlelegged on the hillside, one leg braced higher than the other on the steep part of the slope below the rim. The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope. I was stuttering after the marathon. The camber is the arch or slope from side-to-side of a vessel's weather deck for water drainage. But while his approach shot was online with the flag it hit a small down slope and raced off into rough at the back of the green. It has a gentle slope downstream, and often, for a distance, from the side towards the center. They may be watertight, covering the slope completely, or porous, to allow water to filter through after the wave energy has been dissipated. When the slope, or steepness ratio, of a wave is too great, breaking is inevitable. Show More Sentences At the continental shelf edge, usually about 200 meters deep, the gradient greatly increases and is known as the continental slope. Human impacts have occurred at all ocean depths, but are most significant on shallow continental shelf and slope habitats. The reef is the rigid structure of carbonate platforms and is located between the internal lagoon and the slope. Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain. This asymmetry is due to the fact that the outer slope is defined by the top of the downgoing plate, which must bend as it starts its descent. This slope formed basins that have lasted for thousands of years. Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles. The prudent owner paid to cover the vehicle with a sheet, as sparks often flew when the steam locomotive tackled the slope leading to the tunnel exit. The continental shelf and the slope are part of the continental margin. The water level was just below the crest and the seaward slope was weak. There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water. The DDH provides a controlled environment for ship and submarine assembly, and avoids the difficulties caused by building on the slope of traditional slipways. They develop where the river channel follows the slope of the terrain. Because of the slope the coast is affected by the risk of landslides. The hillside, lined with a coating of wet leaves ready to toboggan her down the slope, made her grateful for a few saplings that provided handholds. Sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of the slope, called the continental rise. The alpine tree line at a location is dependent on local variables, such as aspect of slope, rain shadow and proximity to either geographical pole. As the subducting plate approaches the trench, it first bends upwards to form the outer trench swell, then descends to form the outer trench slope. This protracted deformation and shaking ensures that the inner trench slope is controlled by the angle of repose of whatever material comprises it. Different modes of accretion are reflected in the morphology of the inner slope of the trench, which generally shows three morphological provinces. Show More Sentences The lower slope comprises imbricate thrust slices that form ridges. The upper slope is smoother but may be cut by submarine canyons. The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope followed by the flatter continental rise. The slope of the inner trench slope of an accretionary convergent margin reflects continuous adjustments to the thickness and width of the accretionary prism. Trenches distant from an influx of continental sediments lack an accretionary prism, and the inner slope of such trenches is commonly composed of igneous or metamorphic rocks. The inner trench slope of these convergent margins exposes the crust of the forearc, including basalt, gabbro, and serpentinized mantle peridotite. Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds. Because the continental shelf has a very low slope, a small increase in sea level will result in a large change in the percent of continents flooded. One such NADW eddy was observed in 2003 and the researchers speculated that a deeply penetrating Agulhas ring pinched it off the NADW slope current. This side of the fell presents a long and mainly featureless slope, although near the summit are the Hackney Holes, curious rocky depressions of uncertain origin. If the annuity price increases, further making the spread on top of the actuarily fair premium too high, the slope of ADRF will even reverse and become negative. It contains an unusual type of ecosystem characterized by algific talus, a loose-rock slope affected by the movement of cold air produced by sinkholes and ice. Faults with antithetic slope directions linked in to a controlling fault, or periodic changes of dip in the controlling faults, give the impression of full graben symmetry. It occurs predominantly in deep water, occurring most commonly over the continental slope, in basins situated between banks, or submarine canyon areas. Harold's forces deployed in a small, dense formation at the top of steep slope, with their flanks protected by woods and marshy ground in front of them. On the steep slope and with a strong headwind the plane stopped quickly. In areas of higher moisture, a soil slope may obscure the talus. The glacier abrades the smooth slope on the upstream side as it flows along, but tears rock fragments loose and carries them away from the downstream side via plucking. The permanent snow cover necessary for glacier formation is affected by factors such as the degree of slope on the land, amount of snowfall and the winds. The settlement stretches along the north slope of the valley. Show More Sentences The summit of the fell is composed of one such lava flow, but only a few metres down slope the underlying lava flow is a portion of the Great Whinscale Dacite. Due to the slope of the hill under the viaducts, the girders were assembled at different heights, and only joined when they had reached the same level. This slope meant that the new television studios were far larger than the previous ones, as they could take up vast amounts of space on a lower level. A JOGGER is recovering after falling down a steep slope in Sedgley. Individual pieces of lumber exhibit a wide range in quality and appearance with respect to knots, slope of grain, shakes and other natural characteristics. Though it can be climbed from almost any direction, the easiest and simplest ascent is from the east, where a grassy slope rises above Dunsapie Loch. Dio Cassius notes the presence of Germans on the slope of the hill behind the camp, where the Porta Quaestoria, the gate where provisions were brought in, would have been. The aircraft's horizontal and vertical movement is tracked via radar, and the controller tells the pilot his position relative to the approach slope. Orographic precipitation is similar, except the upwards motion is forced when a moving airmass encounters the rising slope of a landform such as a mountain ridge. On the south and west facing slopes of Cross Fell the rock faces have been broken up by frost action to give a scree slope made up of large boulders. The western slope of the Ural Mountains has predominantly karst topography, especially in the Sylva River basin, which is a tributary of the Chusovaya River. A roof pitch of at least 50 degrees allows precipitation to travel quickly down slope so that it runs off the roof before it can penetrate the structure. Incrementalism in the study of rationality can be seen as a stealthy way to bring about radical changes that were not initially intended, a slippery slope. The little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope. A dry valley on the dip slope of the North Downs near Hucking. The scarp slope has also been used for fortification and many examples of this still exist such as Thurnham Castle and on Castle Hill, Folkestone Castle Hill near Folkestone. Water is, however, an expensive item in drift mines opened on the dip slope of the coal, and underground hauling under such conditions is unusually costly. These conditions are most often found on the escarpment of the North Downs and on valley slopes but may also occur on the plateau of the dip slope. The dip slope is dissected by many small dry valleys, and in the broad eastern part in Kent, by further river valleys such as that of the Little Stour. Examples from Classical Literature The collegiate church which stands on a green slope looking towards the sea is one of the most interesting in Cornwall. That line is stretched from the east to the west along the northern slope of the carpathian region. The cascade at the bottom of the slope appeared a mere span in height from where they were now. A catslide roof is one in which the slope at the rear extends nearly the whole way to the ground. There appeared to be no ascent the one way or the other, and no slope on either side. It lies at an elevation of about 500 ft. on the bleak northward slope of the Chiltern Hills. But Craig shook his head lazily, and Wade, cinching his loosened belt, limped with aching legs down the slope. After that he lighted the fuse, and, clambering down the slope of rock, saw Gordon. They came up over a rise and looked down a gentle slope toward the brown twisting snake that was the Big Muddy. There was no bare earth to take or hold footprints, and there was a climbable slope. Actually, however, none of the clines has an even slope and the possibilities for subdivision therefore are limited. She did not look back once, then, nor as she clomb the long slope to her home. Rather a dull valley lay below, backed by the slope of the coastward downs. But the angler is baffled at the outset by the presence of a steep slope behind him. The Californian biotic Province dominates the biotic aspect of the coastal slope of the range. And at the top of the slope I saw a black hole, and got off my pony to look in. Agar and blood serum are frequently used in the form of slope or slant cultures. The bluejacket had discovered them, and was leaping down the steep slope in hot pursuit. It stands on the extreme points of a range of hills, which slope upwards and command the north-east angle of the Balla Hissar. But all hearts were gladdened by the welcome sight of some argali, or Siberian sheep, on the slope of a hill. Show More Sentences The brickmaker thinks you fell in the water by imprudently venturing too near the slope of the embankment. Elsewhere it shelved off into the steep slope down which bas had carried him. As the alluvion is carried on, the slope of the stream will become steeper and steeper the higher one goes. Look at that wall like low cliffs that juts forward just at right angles to the slope of turf sweeping up to it. They were circling the white mountain, ascending its lower slope. Her temple stood on the northeastern slope of the Aventine Hill. Then, Barking joyfully, he set off down the slope to the village. This slope was trampled hard and bare, and washed out in winding gullies by the rain. As the Federal infantry double-quicked up a slope, Baylor charged. The slope above them was almost covered by the billowing spheres. I prefer Ben Davis and Winesap, on bottom land with a second slope. The Russians had a neat log house built on a grassy slope, with a windlass well beside the door. He descended the slope, and sat down in the shade of a broad-leaved tree. Christie crept nearer to the edge of the slope in the shadow of a buckeye. Their way lay along the slope, crossing the high-road at right angles, to reach the deeper woods beyond. It fell, clawing and tearing, to roll helplessly down the slope. The steeper the slope of the bell, the thinner may be the abacus. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of slope? Words that rhyme with slope What is the past tense of slope? What is the adverb for slope? What is the adjective for slope? What is the noun for slope? Translations for slope Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words slop sloot sloosh sloops Sloop sloop sloped sloper slopes sloping slopped sloppery 5-letter Words Starting With s sl slo slop