Sentence examples for steep on from inspiring English sources

We all know the word hill, but, more specifically, a narrow or oval hill is a drumlin; a small and rounded hill is a knoll, hillock, hummock, monticule, monticle, mound, or (British) barrow; a rounded solitary hill usually with steep sides is a knob; a hill with a broad top is a loma; and a hill steep on one side but with a gentle slope on the other is a cuesta.

(It never looks as steep on TV).

The discs cost around $3 each, which is steep on an hourly basis.

The moraine is steep on the north but slopes more gently toward the south, extending slightly into Latvia.

Make extra-strong coffee, set Darjeeling and water to steep on the sunniest corner of the deck.

I tried to get real steep on it, hit it thin, put it in the water and made a good save for a double.

Since 2011, scientists have wondered about the hundreds of dark streaks that appear seasonally on steep slopes on Mars.

Corris, an 18-month-old foxhound, had become stuck on steep ground on the flanks of Trwyn Y Graig.

The two flanks of the pinnacle (NE and SW) show a different inclination being steeper on the SW side (17°30') respect to the NE one (11°) [30].

An edge in mountain place-names is a steep escarpment, on either one side or (as here) on both sides.

Here there was a precipice on one side and steep hills on the other.