Sentence examples for look steep from inspiring English sources

EVEN with a healthy economy, the Socialist Party's spending promises would look steep.

America, Britain and others took on debts that now look steep compared with incomes and the value of the homes against which much of the money was borrowed.

Then there is the money: restaurant checks may look steep, but subtract a third, because $1 American buys almost $1.50 Canadian.

Corner shops and supermarkets, which once had less than a tenth of the market, are on their way to grabbing half of it, thanks to relaxed trading hours and discounts that make pubs' pound-a-pint offers look steep.

The problems for newspapers look steeper still – especially for the residual, shrinking regionals and contracting nationals, caught in the lee of a digital storm.

For instance, some results indicate that the effortful experience of wearing a heavy backpack makes slopes look steeper and distances seem longer (Proffitt et al., 2003).

A money-raising deck mostly consists of graphs with lines going up and to the right, scrunched two to a page to make the lines look steeper.

For example, hills look steeper when wearing a heavy backpack [1] (but see [2], [3]), children perceive a target to be larger after hitting it with a ball [4], a baseball is perceived to be larger after it has been hit successfully [5], darters estimate the target to be larger when they are more accurate [6] and golfers perceive the hole to be larger after a successful putt [7].

The skin track looked steep, the pace brisk.

But the curve looked steep, and the waiver was alarming.

Florida, Alabama and Texas have been regarded as the three best teams this season, and the drop-off looks steep from there.