Example Sentences
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Sloping down a dusty hill toward the Upper Newport Bay, where recreational enthusiasts share a path that runs alongside the marshy water, is a chain-link fence that separates public land from a sprawling bay-view property.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022
Sloping streets wind up and around town — oftentimes I’d end up where I started without knowing how.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2019
Sloping down the runway with a sly smirk and wearing a tan suit over a polo shirt, the French model and inveterate goofball Felix Gesnouin was Richie Tenenbaum to the life.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2015
And the poet John Heath-Stubbs pulled no punches with his feelings for the area around Land's End: "This is a hideous and wicked country,/ Sloping to hateful sunsets and the end of time."
From The Guardian • May 18, 2012
Sloping downward toward the mighty stream, lie pasture, grove and field, gaily mingled together.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
