Sentence examples for slightly uphill from inspiring English sources

The finishing straight in Reims is slightly uphill, but the fast men will gobble it up.

Bear left, slightly uphill, heading towards the right of the TV masts.

Go through the gate and turn sharp left along the bridleway, walking slightly uphill and entering woodland.

It was slightly uphill into the headwind, so even though the others jumped early, I waited until the last moment.

When the waste neared the top of the dike, the company built another slightly uphill — hence the name upstream construction.

Downtown Spokane is not exactly flat, so baskets are sometimes slightly uphill, downhill or on the side of a hill.

It was uphill, slightly left to right and he poured it into the middle.

We'd been thinking of dawdling slightly east and uphill, to inspect the fantastical Hearst Castle, which looks like a wedding cake (and is parodied in Citizen Kane).

It seems from this that gophers shove the spoil their digging creates in an uphill direction slightly more often than in a downhill one, though why they do so is unclear.To find out if that behaviour might be enough to create mounds, Dr Gabet built a computer model which started with a landscape that varied in height just a little, and randomly.

A common mistake made by beginners is to land straight below where they take off on their downhill edge and readjust to angle their board slightly downhill on their uphill edge, creating a double turn.

The lesion shrinking a little gave me the same kind of encouragement to keep going that I would get when my uphill times get slightly faster".