Sentence examples for at the steep from inspiring English sources
They refuse to look at the steep odds and call their chances bleak.
They also know that China's integration into the global order came at the steep price of relinquishing its ideological patrimony.
The union is open to the concept, but not at the steep rates proposed by the league.
Once at the peak, however, I gazed down at the steep narrow steps and the total lack of banisters.
Health officials were surprised at the steep decline in infection rates because only about a third of American teenage girls have received the full course of three doses.
Look up at the steep sandstone canyon walls, and another astonishing landscape is revealed: geometric shapes and spirals, antlered animals, lumbering woodland creatures, a woman in childbirth.
French consumer spending fell in August at the steepest pace in four years.
The first time she tried, she stalled at the steepest part of the slope and fell off.
"Inflationary pressure was also experienced at the factory gate, with average selling prices rising at the steepest pace since mid-2011".
At the steepest part of the dive, the airplane was losing altitude at the rate of seven miles a minute, with passengers being forced toward the cabin ceiling.
US crude stocks fell at the steepest rate in seven weeks last week, by 4.2m barrels to 537.1m, much larger than the 2.5m-barrel drop analysts were expecting.
