slope
verb (used without object)
to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
had sloped
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past perfectof slope.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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 major had sloped off to the parsonage, well knowing in what nest his dove was lying hid; and he and the vicar had passed each other.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
"A bounder like what?" asked Castleton, who had sloped into the room during Avery's expression of opinion.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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 Perceval Gibbon
