Verb (used without object) : They sloped gradually westward. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The sun sloped its beams. ,to slope an embankment. From Dictionary.com.
The green is thin and severely sloped from the front to the back right. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Hole descriptions] Reference
From this point the mountain sloped down on three sides; the fourth carried over the ridge to the neighboring hill. From Wordnik.com. [This Way to Christmas] Reference
The side is quite sloped, which is nice - good drainage. From Wordnik.com. [dogpossum] Reference
His neck is adorned with a single torque, and he carries a long heavy sword sloped over his right shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
Along about the time Orion's sword sloped down the west Chabot heard their gruntled noises and the scurry of the flock. From Wordnik.com. [Bitterness of Women] Reference
Then once that happened, he really started to lose some credibility, and it's kind of sloped downhill from there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2003] Reference
His name sloped in longhand across the front. From Wordnik.com. [Too Many Bosses]
The sward that sloped from the hilltops thrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
We cut the back and the front breadths, and duly "sloped" the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls] Reference
'Momotaro 8' grown in two commercial "sloped" greenhouses in Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Of course the rabbit "sloped," and in a few minutes both pursued and pursuer were lost in the depths of the snow-encumbered forest. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference
The granite ledges sloped upward to meet the blue of the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
At its head a pebbly beach sloped up to a sea-wall, behind which. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The other side of the ridge sloped sharply for nearly two hundred feet to. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Her decks sloped more, and instead of drifting she remained in one position. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
The ground sloped away a little, and the arch opened into the stainless blue. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
On either side the roof sloped abruptly, but she worked her way on, inch by inch. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
Her pastel skin reflected light that gushed through a window in the sloped ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Check Engine Light] Reference
Beyond, a set of stairs sloped downward and allowed the room to regain some human proportion. From Wordnik.com. [Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck] Reference
A driveway that had sloped upward from the road was now flat, the rose garden buried in sand. From Wordnik.com. [Massive Quake Rattles New Zealand Economy] Reference
At the other side, the ledge sloped down in natural, uneven terraces to the valley far below. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
The teenagers started grinding at local elementary schools, which were ringed by sloped blacktop. From Wordnik.com. [Boycotting The Blockbusters] Reference
The same can't be said for Fort Greene Park, which contains six badly sloped and cracked hard courts. From Wordnik.com. [So Where Can New Yorkers Play Tennis?] Reference
Not a soul moved along Allenby Street, another replica of old Beirut that sloped down toward the port. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Beirut] Reference
From the pocket, he could see across the river and down, where the embankment sloped towards Chattanooga. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Alysia noticed that the tree was on the edge of the hill and it sloped to a bunch of bushes and trees below. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.18: Me?] Reference
At every crossing the banks had to be sloped off and the bed built up before the wagons could be drawn over. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Strong door detents: Doors that stay open on my slightly sloped driveway without the need to fight them back. From Wordnik.com. [Driving with an injury: Features that can ease the pain] Reference
There was the arbour where they used to shelter from a shower, built with sloped boards at its entrance so that. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
A steeply sloped front end meets a seriously slanted windshield; it looks as if this SLK is zooming even at a standstill. From Wordnik.com. [ROAD TEST| MERCEDES SLK350] Reference
Warrenton road, standing for hours wondering what was meant; the deployment along the edge of the field that sloped down to. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The passage in which he found himself sloped downward, and was at first scarcely large enough to allow him to walk upright. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
See that the back is nicely sloped, that the breast is full enough, and especially if it be even and narrow between the legs. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
From here she could look out the windows over the field, which sloped down to a thick bank of fir trees at the edge of the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
Another option, if the slab is in good condition, is to add an overlay or new layer of concrete on top that will be properly sloped. From Wordnik.com. [Applying finish to furniture with real luster] Reference
Or the teenager who dived into a poorly designed private pool and was paralyzed because the floor of the deep end sloped up too much. From Wordnik.com. [Summertime And Litigiousness Is Easy] Reference
Traci's hair is white-blond and her nose is sloped like Bee's, only her nostrils could conceal walnuts, so it's probably real. From Wordnik.com. [Not All Who Wander Are Lost] Reference
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