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.
has sloped
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present perfectof slope (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We ’ain’t got no home and we ’ain’t got no ma, We ’ain’t got no notion whose childer we are, And our old nuss has sloped without saying “Ta ta.”
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
The juice has sloped and the wine's up the spout, and the bully's zero.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
Meantime, while these lovers sit on the hillside, and the artist has been talking in pictures as the clouds do, the sun has sloped far toward setting.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
And as Dashwood has sloped perhaps I may sail in consort.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
The sheep can’t be far off, and you can easily bring them in, even if, as is not unlikely, Goníwe has sloped.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
