Sentence examples for wide steep from inspiring English sources
Even die-hard Manhattanites know that Park Slope, with its abundance of wide, steep and sweeping stoops, is New York's version of a Turkish bazaar.
With a bike man's holiday — a grueling race that substituted the claustrophobic corridors of Manhattan with the wide, steep boulevards of Staten Island.
Kate accompanied Emily on practice runs on the relatively easy slope under Chair 7, and I headed off unencumbered to Chair 8, a quad that afforded mystical views of Mount Shuksan and access to wide, steep, not too bumpy bowls well-suited to what was left of my knees.
I headed right out with my daughters Emily, 14, and Sarah, one of my 12-year-old twins, for our favorite run -- a wide, steep, bumpy pitch called "Canuck's Delux" (a dubious choice of name given that the area is closer to Vancouver, British Columbia, than Seattle and that a big chunk of the clientele hails from Canada).
Strike One: "a wide, steep drive leading to the big auditorium" is vague enough to mean almost anything and therefore means nothing.
"When Augie reached the top of the wide, steep drive leading to the big auditorium, he saw a cluster of at least two dozen people already waiting outside the rank of doors, some standing, most sitting.
Cliffs closed the run in near its exit, the bottleneck just 15 feet wide and steep enough to provoke some caution: "Ski quick and careful through this," Mr. Brown shouted as I pushed off.
The moral of the story: The fissures between Palace and Street are too wide, too steep for artists to bridge without risking the loss of their creative autonomy.
The valley there is 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 km) wide, with steeper ground on the left than on the right; the floodplain is extensive and characterized by diversionary branches of the river and by lakes; the bed is still full of shoals; and the gradient is reduced, but the depth increases markedly.
It is built at a place where the river is 1,800 feet wide and has steep banks of granite.
As a result, he said, the navigable channel into Highlands is about 100 yards wide but has steep shoals on each side.
