The bed was cranked upward at a thirty-degree angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delicate Storm]

Michigan, he put two thirty-degree turns near its middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Main Street Can Learn From the Mall] Reference

Mikovsky leaned against the thirty-degree tilt in the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

She headed into the berth at a thirty-degree angle, her speed now eight knots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

The man held up his right index finger, which bent sideways at a thirty-degree angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero]

Have one of the technicians tilt a bed so it is at a thirty-degree angle to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Limits] Reference

Sometimes she splits the seals on her 'skin, basks face and arms in the thirty-degree seep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

The winds picked up, whipping about, making the thirty-degree air feel like it was fifteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference

He rose fast, and he tilted the buggy to send it skating along the thirty-degree slope of the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Known Space]

"In hot," he advised as he pushed the stick forward and rolled the F-4 into a thirty-degree dive angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honorbound]

It was down now, on a good thirty-degree slope of fall; still above the blue line by an inch or so, but plunging.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Far Call]

After that, the feeling of nausea gradually passed and the cabin settled down, but it settled at a thirty-degree slant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]

Beside the chairs was a raised platform bearing a casket, tilted horizontally toward the window at about a thirty-degree angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Its barrel, a glass cylinder, was aligned with the taped-off 4 "x4" square on the artifact's side, looking up at about a thirty-degree angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

When they wheeled me back from surgery, the nurse propped up the foot of my bed with a chair, so that I lay on my belly at a thirty-degree angle, head down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell Them, Please Tell Them] Reference

The Georgia headed straight for it, then at about three miles distance made a thirty-degree alteration to starboard, judged the timing to a nicety and came round in a wide sweeping turn to port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seawitch]

Cav kept both hands on the wheel and one eye on the rearview mirror as they topped the rise of yet another steep grade, then rolled down a thirty-degree decline toward a long metal expansion bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadly Promises] Reference

He wanted to step forward a bit to take some of the pressure from his lower back, but he was at a perfect thirty-degree angle and knew that if he moved, he could send both of them tumbling to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Respect The Jux] Reference

He'd had to use the disintegrator to clear away the snow in the tunnel, and he'd had to climb it at a thirty-degree rise, dragging a bulk as heavy as himself and wearing a space suit which weighed nearly as much.    From Wordnik.com.  [World of Ptavvs]

I thought about those words a lot today back on the picket line in front of Viacom in the heart of Times Square, marching laps around our little patch of Broadway in thirty-degree weather as it started to freezing rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trey Ellis: "Power Concedes Nothing Without Demand"] Reference

Its recumbent side was now flattened into a triangular plane, widening from the narrow tip in which we stood to all of five hundred feet where its base rested against the blue wall, and falling at a full thirty-degree pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

For most of its length the ship was cylindrical; but the tail, the trailing edge, flared outward for a little distance, and the leading edge was beveled like a chisel, curving in at a thirty-degree angle to close the twenty-foot gap between outer and inner hulls, the gap that held the guts of the ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gift From Earth]

Some pikes sloped a little more loosely than the prescribed thirty-degree angle and an occasional head drooped, but that was to be expected, considering each soldier carried, in addition to a full fifty-pound kit, three days 'extra field rations, water, extra throwing spears, and either a mattock, pick, or shovel to dig fortifications.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]

There are a lot of those domed conclaves around, but by figuring the angle -- the conclave has to be on the opposite side of the building from the tower -- and judging by Uhura's description, there's only a thirty-degree difference, or a one-hundred-and-fifty-degree angle between them, leaving exactly two hundred and ten for the other degree, if ve postulate that the yarchouse is in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fearful Summons]

Summers are hot and dry, with thirty-degree swings in temperature from day to night.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE CUNNING REALIST] Reference

"Diving Officer, make your depth eight-five feet, thirty-degree down angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

From what she could see, the entire structure had" sunk, and tilted forward at a thirty-degree angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

"In thirty-degree weather?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Of Honour]