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is inclining

  • present progressive
    of incline (3rd person singular).
    incline
    verb (used without object)
    to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.

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When I rise again, I see she is inclining toward a large pile of watermelons in the corner.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The soil in which it grows in Virginia is inclining to sandy, consequently warm and light; the nearer, therefore, the nature of the land approaches to that, the greater probability there is of its flourishing.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

The present school of rationalists is inclining to admit that Ephesians is genuine.

From The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

On the seventeenth day, at sunrise, she is inclining to the west.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

More well-to-do farmers and peasantry, with small savings, arrive than formerly, and the preponderance, as to nationality, is inclining to the Germans.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace