Sentence examples for moves downhill from inspiring English sources

When air moves downhill, it is compressed because of the greater weight of the atmosphere — and subsequently warms.

Energy is produced as water moves downhill and turns a turbine at the end of the pipe.

The rebound theory is also consistent with the observations obtained from various large-scale landslide experiments (Moriwaki et al. 2004) that clearly showed that overlying materials are bent downward by the gravitational force of the sliding material before the material moves downhill (Figure 4).

Undeterred by this anomaly, the divide seeker moves downhill to the ditch itself.

When it rains, the soil erodes unevenly, and rainwater accumulates and flows into depressions, taking the path of least resistance as it moves downhill.

It seemed as if the Jets were moving downhill.

The sludge moved downhill, covering low-lying villages in Hungary's Marcal River valley.

Their plans seemed to flow naturally, like water moving downhill, toward a shared life dedicated to Haiti.

"His fastball was moving downhill," said Posada, who likened Contreras's assortment of pitches to those of Roger Clemens.

Klimek described it to me as "a low-intensity backing fire" — that is, one moving downhill rather than up; an uphill fire tends to spread faster.

Azam had come to Chhota Shigri to measure three things: the mass of the glacier, its thickness, and the speed with which it was moving downhill.