Sentence examples for was steep with from inspiring English sources
verb
To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove components to or from the item
- They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather.
Among patients without diabetes, the relation between increasing CV and increasing mortality was steep, with more than a threefold higher mortality among the entire cohort with CV >40% compared with those with CV <20%.
The decrease of the scattering intensity was steeper with increasing CO2 pressure and was thermally reversible.
The adsorbed rate of 2-CP contents was steeper with high GAC dosage of 20 g than low GAC dosage of 1 g before reaction time of 2 h.
The slope was steeper with 4 and 8 cd/m2 luminance surfaces than 16 cd/m2 surface (main effect of luminance F 2, 12) = 10.96, p<.01; post-hoc analysis Fisher's PLSD p<.05).
During all the dynamic tests the CV significantly declined (effects of time for the unloaded test P < 0.02; for other tests P < 0.001), whereby the decline was steeper with larger forces (interaction between force and time, P < 0.001).
THE BILL Prices are steep, with entrees from $21 to $32.
The competition would be steep — with dozens of students applying for each internship — but less selective than in 2009.
Lewis's learning curve in 2013 has been steep, with every leap forward followed by a few steps back.
Now, after the mass murder at the World Trade Center, the fall is expected to be steep, with New York especially hard-hit.
This is steep, with five of its 10 kilometres at over 10%, and will whittle down the field before the finish.
The price will be steep, with police overtime pushing the tab to some $5 million a week even as the city struggles to close a budget shortfall of more than $3 billion.
