had sloped
- past perfect of slope.
Example Sentences
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A driveway that had sloped upward from the road was now flat, the rose garden buried in sand.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2010
It had sloped up so high onto Mr. Newton’s house that when Turner got there the next morning, Mr. Newton had crawled out the second-story window and was shoveling off the roof of his porch.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The bank which, so far, had sloped down to the reeds in slight declivities, became lower here.
From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann
But many a poor soldier had sloped down there into the boggy canal of Avernus before him.
From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman
During his absence the lingering southern autumn had sloped towards winter; the trees along the sad boulevard were already leafless; the river had changed from luminous blue to the blank hue of steel.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
