Sentence examples for made a steep from inspiring English sources

We made a steep descent to a stream and searched for the simple footbridge.

Mr. Myers, he said, "had the airplane off the ground in an incredibly short roll," then made "a steep approach" and finally "landed in about 500 feet, rolled up to our astounded group and let off an ashen-faced flight commander".

Sony will sell you a PlayStation 2 at a loss, in the hope that it will make a steep profit on the games.

Jennifer Duffy, Senate editor at The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter in Washington, said the retirement "just makes a steep hill all the more steep".

The German bank has suffered from lower trading revenues and was forced to make a steep increase in provisions for bad loans.

The first new type to gain prominence was the dive bomber, which makes a steep dive toward the target before releasing its bombs.

It had begun to make a steep descent at a rate of 6,000 feet per minute shortly before communications were lost.

The pilot of the air ambulance reported that he had to make a steep banking turn to avoid the UAS, passing it at less than 100ft.

When the top lot, in this case Picasso's "Femmes lisant (deux personnages)," makes a steep $21.36 million and yet misses the lower end of the estimate by more than 20 percent, something is wrong with the auction market.

A person with knowledge of Yankee developments said talks between the teams heated up yesterday, but the Cubs continued to make a steep request in both quality and quantity of players.

And if patients have to stop working, they often have to make a steep monthly payment for extended coverage, which can easily cost $1,000 a month, at the same time their income is reduced.