Sentence examples for slope lean from inspiring English sources

It was frequently invoked in sports (lean in to the slope, lean in to the wave) and evolved into a metaphor for embracing risk, said Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, and language columnist for The Boston Globe.

A tree down the slope leaned over slowly and settled heavily to the ground.

Flames near slopes leaned toward the slope, and at some slope angles the flames attached to the slope.

Try to keep your body pointed down the slope and lean with your legs, keeping your upper body perpendicular to the ground.

The basic structural forms are the span-type greenhouse, which has a double-sloped, or A-shaped, roof, and the lean-to greenhouse, which has only one roof slope and leans against the side of a building.

The building's sloping tiers lean at the same angle as the tip of the Washington Monument.

We enter the gigantic Cathedral whose floor slopes and pillars lean in due to a 13th-century earthquake.

If you need to stop suddenly halfway down a slope, crouch low to the ground and lean backward, letting your skis slide out from under you.

No significant difference was found for slope of thrombin-induced platelet aggregation between MetS and lean controls (data not shown).

The most successful lean back, their chins parallel to the floor, but their bodies sloping forwards in a diagonal, their incredibly long arms hanging down.

However, the linear regression slope of half-life versus age did not show consistent trends when comparing the leaner and heavier BMI groups in Table 1.