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.
have sloped
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present perfectof slope.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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Burgundy/Rhône: These bottles are wider at the bottom than Bordeaux bottles, and they have sloped shoulders.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
Sometimes, less forcefully, I may have sloped off or stolen away.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been arranged that Allen should hold the receptacle for the honey, otherwise he would inevitably have sloped off.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
"But Heeltap swears, and I know Miller's wife and Bob Tape have sloped, as they say in the papers."
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
From what I can remember of it now, the path must have sloped upwards very gradually.
From Long Live the King by Guy Boothby
