slopingly
- a word derived from slope.
Example Sentences
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Very different these from the concomitants of half a sheet of ruled paper, scrawled over as if chickens had been walking upon it, and folded slopingly, and held loosely together by a wafer!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Whip′-graft, to graft by fitting a tongue cut on the scion to a slit cut slopingly in the stock.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The trough thus charged is fixed slopingly upon the machine, over a little table, as big as the plate of an ordinary sovereign-balance.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
We drift upon a tide Shoreless on every side, Save where the eye Of Fancy sweeps far lands Shelved slopingly with sands Of gold and porphyry.
From Riley Love-Lyrics by Vawter, Will
It was one of those long, low racing boats, steered with a wheel like a motor-car, and slopingly decked over in front to shield the driver.
From The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol by Theiss, Lewis E.
