Sentence examples for sloping towards from inspiring English sources

This fascinating 1884 map shows what lies beneath London – an estuarine landscape of creeks and swamps, gently sloping towards the sea.

The Roman historian Diodorus and other ancient historians gave graphic accounts of Carthaginian child sacrifice: "There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus, extending its hands, palms up and sloping towards the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire".

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.

The area is sloping towards west.

The environmental setting and topography of the area are generally sloping towards east to south-east.

Most boulders are scattered at a distance of up to 70 m from the coastline (Scicchitano et al., 2007) on a large Pleistocene wave-cut platform located 5 10 m above sea level (a.s.l)., gently sloping towards the sea and bordered by up to 5 m high cliffs.

After a couple of days in the dehesa, the camino slowly slopes towards the plains again.

The ground surface generally slopes towards the south-east direction.

The landfill slopes towards a floodplain that drains into River Ijede.

The radiation values on surfaces sloped towards the equator and the North Pole were presented to verify the hypothesis.

The radiation values on surfaces sloped towards the equator and North Pole were presented to verify the hypothesis.