Adjective : Those prices are too steep for me. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving. ,an incident steeped in mystery. From Dictionary.com.
The avalanche scale suggests that, when the danger is "moderate", caution should be used in steeper terrain. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Daniel Arato, one of the] Reference
The higher we got, the steeper was the track that crawled on a narrow edge. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
The sharper the turn, the greater the effect of the centrifugal force, and therefore the steeper should be the "bank.". From Wordnik.com. [The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition] Reference
The upper is the fermenting vat, or "steeper," and is about twenty feet square by three deep. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
A siege army that successfully penetrated these outer defenses would have met a second, still "steeper" challenge. From Wordnik.com. [A Medieval Castle in the Middle East] Reference
Technically the Deals chart isn't "steeper", because you haven't labelled the Y axis?. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0] Reference
The steeper is the rise of Sm or the drop of S. From Wordnik.com. [Talk Reason] Reference
Ascents don't get much steeper than Stan O'Neal's. From Wordnik.com. [WHY THE WORRY?] Reference
But Danziger's surveys show steeper cutbacks at the top. From Wordnik.com. [How the Mighty Have Fallen] Reference
Now they're smoldering that Clinton has not paid a steeper price. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallout] Reference
But such a maneuver will only plunge the plane into a steeper dive. From Wordnik.com. [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference
Even far steeper tax hikes than Clinton's would not close that gap. From Wordnik.com. [The '80S: A Final Reckoning] Reference
But the Blakes soon questioned whether they'd paid a steeper price. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE CANAL'S LONG SHADOW 25 YEARS LATER] Reference
The learning curve, though, is much steeper in the other direction. From Wordnik.com. [Going Extreme: Snowboarding And Moguls] Reference
Historically, the steeper the GDP decline, the stronger the rebound. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Markets Are Up] Reference
Adult tubes are narrower and at a steeper angle, so they drain better. From Wordnik.com. [To Dose Or Not To Dose?] Reference
The administration will find that the toll's steeper on the high road. From Wordnik.com. [The Double Bubba Double Standard] Reference
Still too far away to be heard, it plunged down a slightly steeper bank. From Wordnik.com. [Polar Bear] Reference
The steeper the fall in housing prices, the more homeowners will default. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, It’s A Wreck, But We Can Fix It] Reference
That uphill climb has gotten steeper with last night's Delaware primary result. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Count Out a GOP Senate Just Yet] Reference
The distributor says that feature allows the LawnBott to work on steeper slopes. From Wordnik.com. [We test two robotic mowers and find one Not Acceptable] Reference
But the Bay Area's hybrid-registration falloff was steeper than the nationwide drop. From Wordnik.com. [Hybrids Running Out of Gas] Reference
The task is made more difficult by the fact that the competition is steeper than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Take This Blog and Shove It!] Reference
It's steeper than I thought, but I manage to get my backpack off and roll with the fall. From Wordnik.com. [Hard To Know You Can't Go Back] Reference
The benefits of this are helping Japan avoid what might have been an even steeper downturn. From Wordnik.com. [What Japan Got Right] Reference
As long as house prices stay steady and unemployment doesn't soar, steeper home loans aren't a huge risk. From Wordnik.com. [Maxed Out] Reference
The bottom line is that the bankruptcy courthouse is still open, but the steps to the front door are steeper. From Wordnik.com. [Going For Broke] Reference
In that decade, Americans, Europeans and Japanese faced an even steeper price rise than the one we face today. From Wordnik.com. [Hail to the Suburban Oasis] Reference
Others believe the cost would be much steeper -- perhaps steep enough to turn oil industry profits into losses. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Engler: The Gulf at the Gas Station: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil?] Reference
Singers have always faced a steeper climb to international recognition, not least because of the language barrier. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls From Brazil] Reference
The small stake was expensive enough, and Khazanah's winning bid values the company at a steeper 27 times forecast 2010 earnings. From Wordnik.com. [A Rewarding Failure for Fortis Healthcare] Reference
Firms that specialized in environmentally friendly plant-covered roofs discovered that plants could grow on ever-steeper inclines. From Wordnik.com. [Climbing The Office Walls] Reference
This is the kind of recovery you would expect coming out of a severe recession, since the deeper the trough the steeper the rebound. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Recoveries] Reference
Veering off the crowded route known as the West Buttress, the team took a little-traveled, far steeper shortcut called the West Rib. From Wordnik.com. [Dangling At 19,000 Feet] Reference
“The first part of the climb is definitely steeper and more consistent than anything on the other side,” said the South African. From Wordnik.com. [Levi Leipheimer versus the world at Tour of Utah] Reference
But given the economy, and the pervasive anti-incumbent sentiment, today's poll suggests that Quinn has the much steeper hill to climb. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Brady Leads Pat Quinn By 13 Points In Latest Poll Of Illinois Governor's Race] Reference
When the RU486-only clinics are taken out of the equation, the drop in abortion providers since 2000 is in fact a much steeper 8 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Better Prevention or Changing Attitudes?] Reference
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