Sentence examples for grow steeper from inspiring English sources

The challenges could grow steeper.

The tax should be significant at the start — equivalent to roughly a dollar per gallon for gasoline — and then grow steeper over time.

The challenges will grow steeper this week when the Knicks face the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden, where they have won five in a row.

The current decline is the steepest peak-to-trough drop since the 1982 housing bust, said Michael T. Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners, and it could grow steeper if sales continue to flag.

Llewelyn is the wild card — a good old boy who lives on the borderline between good luck and bad, between outlaw and solid citizen — and Mr. Brolin is the human center of the movie, the guy you root for and identify with even as the odds against him grow steeper by the minute.

I rose from my rock and headed up the incline back to the trail, a surface that seemed to grow steeper as I ascended.

The decline in their numbers grew steeper.

When the road grew steeper, the horses slowed even more.

Then, as the road grew steeper, Basso and Evans left Scarponi behind.

In the meantime, the steps to a walk-up have grown steeper by the year.

The English presence is once again marked, but the challenge is growing steeper.