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. 

Adjective : Those prices are too steep for me.    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

Even far steeper tax hikes than Clinton's would not close that gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The '80S: A Final Reckoning] Reference

The learning curve, though, is much steeper in the other direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Extreme: Snowboarding And Moguls] Reference

But such a maneuver will only plunge the plane into a steeper dive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] 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

Historically, the steeper the GDP decline, the stronger the rebound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Markets Are Up] Reference

The administration will find that the toll's steeper on the high road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Double Bubba Double Standard] Reference

Adult tubes are narrower and at a steeper angle, so they drain better.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Dose Or Not To Dose?] 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

“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

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

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

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