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Synonyms for sloping

Grammar : Adj
Spell : slohp
Phonetic Transcription : sloÊŠp

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Définition of sloping

Origin :
  • 1590s, "go in an oblique direction," from earlier adjective meaning "slanting" (c.1500), probably from Middle English aslope (adv.) "on the incline" (late 15c.), from Old English *aslopen, past participle of aslupan "to slip away," from a- "away" + slupan "to slip" (see sleeve). From 1709 as "to be in a slanting position;" transitive sense "place in a slanting position" is from c.1600. Related: Sloped; sloping.
  • adj askew
  • adj slanting
Example sentences :
  • They sit (very uncomfortably) on a sloping stone there, and compare notes.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • Already Kirsty stood at the bottom of the sloping tunnel, and was lighting her candle.
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • The walls were low, and the heavy roof was flat and sloping.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • All around the dais, seated on the sloping floor of the cavern, were Lakonians.
  • Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • But the darkness seems to gather on the breast of the sloping hills.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • It splashed their feet and drained away across the sloping flagstones.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • I pushed him on over a sloping peak of shale, and told him to hold his tongue.
  • Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton
  • It is situated on a hillside, sloping towards the northwest.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • And it resembled a stair roughly, with long, sloping steps, wet with rain.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • Over a grave on the sloping hill-side there is a marble shaft.
  • Extract from : « Jolly Sally Pendleton » by Laura Jean Libbey

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