Sentence examples for rising steep from inspiring English sources

But the mountains, rising steep and green out of the valley floor, were uncultivated and wild, and were on the border between the two greatest regions of Italian cooking — Tuscany, with its game and wine, and Emilia-Romagna, with its cheese, pasta, and cured meats.

To me, a child of the working class, this historic town, rising steep and scenic from the shores of the Hudson River, whose panoramic views had become in the 19th century the very embodiment of the American sublime, seemed, yes, a place of glorious vistas, but one also of narrow horizons.

Female students have a hazard function rising steeper than male students' hazard function, and the hazard function of HBO -students is much steeper than that of WO, indicating higher hazards of graduation for women and HBO-students, as discussed before.

A wake rose steep, four feet off the water, curling back at its break.

Across the broad river, the New Jersey bank rises steep and thickly wooded, with little sign of habitation.

The land around us, thickly blanketed with pines and dotted with occasional cedar and birch, rose steep and rocky on both sides of the river ahead of us.

Behind it rise steep limestone mountains, part of the Arrábida natural park, which has curving mountain roads, forests, views over the bay, and monasteries to visit.

The cliff rises steep behind it, and one catches sight, here and there, of the dark cracks of natural caves such as the one in which the first scrolls were found.

This is spoken on a steep rising Tone 2, the steep rise indicating he has raised the interpersonal involvement in his question, i.e. he REALLY wants to know.

From this base, Murray's progress has proceeded along a steeply rising trajectory – steeper even than Roger Federer's.

Cigarette prices rose a steep 1.7percentt, partly because of recent tax increases.