Sentence examples for sloped from inspiring English sources

The word 'sloped' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a past tense verb meaning to incline or cause to incline downwards. For example, "The roof of the shed sloped downwards towards the back."

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sloped

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At least 30 O2 workers decided they had had enough within half an hour and sloped back to their desks.

Fernando Martínez Sanabria and Guillermo Avendaño, both also from Colombia, moulded modest houses with steeply sloped roofs and soft curves, like ceramic vessels tucked into the side of a hill.Early experiments undertaken in Cuba after the 1959 revolution were unsocialistically suave.

As the giant new airliner taxied for takeoff, the older A340 landed and then sloped off the runway with smoke puffing from its tyres.

The alphabet was fundamentally uncomplicated; letters sloped 35 to 40 degrees to the right, and thick lines were produced on the downstrokes of capitals and minuscules through pressure applied on a flexible, edged (i.e., not pointed) nib.

Thereafter, however, the curve of employment in manufacturing sloped remorselessly downward.

Spectators, depending on how much money they had, could either stand in the yard, which may have sloped toward the stage, sit on benches in the galleries that went around the greater part of the walls, sit in one of the private boxes, or sit on a stool on the stage proper.

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On the other side of the island, where the land slopes gently down to a beach, we see what they can do, as they shoot easily through the water.

It's the contrast between yellow skin and curling black hair; the sloping shoulder; the sallow buttock; the nubby, ribby little tits, their useless pink nipples rimmed with spider's legs.

The four rooms are simply furnished, and from your balcony you can watch the sun set into the ocean, across a goat field that slopes down to a coastline dotted with tiny sandy coves; the darkness is sudden, and the rooms have no electricity, just candles and hurricane lamps.

From the front of the property you look out to rice fields, lavender bushes and the distant Arrábida hills that glow mauve in the morning; and from the garden, a sun-bleached wooden walkway leads through pine trees to Praia do Pego (houses cannot be built within 200m of the shore, so this is as close as you'll get), a stretch of perfect icing sugar sand sloping towards the Atlantic.

Few are safe for children to swim from, so the gently sloping sands of Farol beach, protected from the rollers by a headland, are perfect for families.

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