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SLOPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having an oblique or slanted direction
Synonyms:
aslant; aslope; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping
Classified under:
Similar:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb slope
Context examples:
Wilson stood in the position from which he had derived his nickname, his left hand and left foot well to the front, his body sloped very far back from his loins, and his guard thrown across his chest, but held well forward in a way which made him exceedingly hard to get at.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“My lord,” said a rough-haired, dark-faced man, who walked by the knight's other stirrup, with his head sloped to catch all that he was saying.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a pale-green foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upwards and ended in a line of cliffs dark red in color, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the eastern side of this plain the country-side sloped upwards, thick with vines in summer, but now ridged with the brown bare enclosures.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he spoke, the forest pathway along which they marched opened out into a green glade, which sloped down towards the river.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Italian he might be were his bassinet more sloped, but I will swear that those plates were welded betwixt this and Rhine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whole Company, leading their horses, passed across to the small hill which loomed in front of them out of the mist. It was indeed admirably designed for defence, for it sloped down in front, all jagged and boulder-strewn, while it fell away in a sheer cliff of a hundred feet or more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
