Sentence examples for if not steep from inspiring English sources

If not, steep a while longer.

We all have heard about China's rumbling toward world dominion, while the US readies for a long, if not necessarily steep, fall.

The learning curve is not steep.

A 10% drop is not steep.

The learning curve is steep, but sometimes not steep enough.

The most aggressive response is 4 Nc3 (4 d3 is careful yet too timid), but White must be prepared to follow through with the piece sacrifice 4... fe 5 Ne4 d5 6 Ne5!?, and if he is not steeped in heavy analysis, he does well to stay out of it.

King is not steeped in baseball fiction.

Musical theater is not steeped in Africanisms.

"Ellington was not steeped in European music.

Conversely, if the initial slope isn't steep enough, then the marble won't gather enough speed to go through loops or turns and things like that.

Not too steep, not too flat.