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.
were sloping
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past progressiveof slope.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The passages were sloping steeper and steeper downhill now.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
The brows were drawn tightly in a surly frown; a heavy dark moustache hid the upper lip, and though the shoulders were sloping he was obviously a man of considerable physical strength.
From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
The ranch hotel lay just where the foothills of the Sierras with their groves of live oaks were sloping into the golden plains of the Sacramento.
From Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton
There were two windows in one end; the walls were sloping.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
The sides were sloping walls, which sometimes became quite vertical.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
