They were sliding on Omne's back down the near-vertical slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fate of the Phoenix]

It had now entered upon the last near-vertical lap of its journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Eagles Dare]

I reached a near-vertical position, I felt a metal rod under my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greylorn] Reference

Your point on the importance of a near-vertical structure is excellent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curry's Comments on Klotzbach « Climate Audit] Reference

Sabre went into a near-vertical dive during a strafing run near Can Tho in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Offutt, Gary P.] Reference

She has found one, Pyrex brand, with sloping rather than near-vertical sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lest we forget] Reference

To see out of the groughs you have to scramble up the near-vertical peat walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

Personally, I thought the flying, near-vertical blonde-haired blackdawg wuz the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gun Dog Photo Contest: And the Winner Is...] Reference

For a moment she hung there, facing a near-vertical drop, her instincts crying danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best and The Brightest] Reference

The superior Posada on the Rim is built, literally, overhanging the near-vertical canyon wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico's Copper Canyon] Reference

At the far end of the path, a flight of wooden steps led down a near-vertical slope, some eighty paces high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and The Mists of Door]

In flood, it must be icy, deep, and full of clashing rocks carried down from the lonely, near-vertical crags.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

It was near-vertical, over the worst kind of crumbling rubble, with no equipment but inadequate, half-poisonous ropes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fate of the Phoenix]

She again squinted toward the clock face, and figured it must be near six, the hands seeming to make a near-vertical line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Remains]

It was their customary practice to fly at high altitude in level formation, then peel off successively in near-vertical dives.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Andreas]

The Elevator was a wooden box suspended from a mighty arrangement of ropes and pulleys, hauled up a near-vertical groove in the cliff face by a wheel system at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The 43-year-old fell 500 metres down a near-vertical slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference

U3O8 Corp. suspects that the near-vertical structure continues at depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The Embarcadero, of course (unless you love running on near-vertical hills).    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Travel] Reference

I peered over what looked like a near-vertical wall as I locked my heel down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

My foot slipped not more than six feet down the near-vertical hill, and I fell onto my back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogtimore, Hon] Reference

The Plunge, a near-vertical chute cut in 1994, was reopened this season after a decade of dormancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Travel] Reference

The short-lived beauty of the shimmering valley was quickly forgotten as we hit a near-vertical climb.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

But on this near-vertical unnamed Alaskan peak, it's time to trust the maritime snowpack and the guides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

The OLS4000 features near-vertical slope capabilities, larger optical zoom and navigation-overview window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference

Any time at highway speeds in the Cube, the wind noise over the near-vertical windshield is unusually loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Atherton is far larger and more valuable, and that his home is five stories only because it sits on a near-vertical lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inform - U.S. Politics] Reference

Culturally, we have not grasped the appeal of hammering down a near-vertical ice tube in the same way as our European cousins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

(Some designs, however, do provide power to the rotor temporarily to facilitate a vertical or near-vertical takeoff and landing.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting Thing of the Day] Reference

The specimen was extracted from the base of a near-vertical cliff wall using a diamond blade on a gas-powered industrial cut-off saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Along with skiers plunging over cliffs and dropping down near-vertical chutes, it's his early films 'soundtracks that also set them apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference