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 FW's were sloping in at a screaming pace.
From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Paul Laune
Near her were sloping hills, dotted with thorny cactus and other prickly plants, and now rose a bald rock spire with its suggestion of grim lonesomeness.
From The Two-Gun Man by Charles Alden Seltzer
Across the lake were sloping hills rising gently from the water arrayed in the brightest of green.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
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
