How to Use slope in a Sentence

slope

1 of 2 verb

• His handwriting slopes to the left.
• Scars now slope across the right side of his face and neck.
  — NBC News, 28 Dec. 2020
• The hillside lot is sloped, with the rear yard lower than the front.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
• The fields will be contoured and manicured to slope to the drain.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
• Gray sand lines the shoreline on the beach, hemmed in by rolling hills that gently slope down to the ocean.
  — oregonlive, 14 July 2021
• High above the town with a view over the small forest and stretches of grassy dunes sloping down to the sea.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• The driveway slopes down to a private parking area and garage.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
• The hillsides weren’t yet in bloom, and fog skulked around the mountains in the distance, sloped and faded.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Lawns slope toward the pond, framed by a backdrop of woodland.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• The soils around a wood foundation must slope away from the house at a 5% grade for a distance of a least ten feet.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The brush fire was in a sloping field along Lahainaluna Road.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The earth around your house should slope at least 1 inch per foot going away from your house for about 6 to 8 feet out from the house.
  — Kevin Brasler, Star Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
• The city encircles its harbor, on hillsides that slope down to the seafront.
  — Odveig Klyve, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2022
• The path sloped gently downhill through fields with olive groves, cows grazing, and flocks of sheep and goats.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• Out back there's an enormous swan-neck wing that sprouts from the sloping roofline rather than the decklid.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 June 2023
• The drain is offset with a gently sloping base to direct water to the drain.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2023
• The best way to keep your greenhouse from flooding is to raise it a bit and allow the ground around it to slightly slope down.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2018
• The earth around your house should slope at least one inch per foot going away from your house for about six to eight feet out from the house.
  — Kevin Brasler, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
• The rear seat remains huge and, despite the sloping roofline, there's 40 cubic feet of space in the cargo area even with the seats up.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
• The ground should slope away from your foundation, not towards it, and plants should sit at least a foot away from your house.
  — Carmen Collins, Country Living, 24 Jan. 2020
• Water tends to collect in the outside lanes, which slope curbside.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• The Front Line Kitchen occupies a few cramped ground-floor rooms and a shed off a sloping street on the edge of Lviv’s picturesque old town.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• Sharply faceted and colored blue, the fireplace slopes to one side and looks like a chunk of ice that has detached itself from a glacier.
  — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2023
• In profile, the back of the passenger cabins on GM’s trucks slope down to the side of the bed rather than the two parts meeting at a sharp right angle.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
• Forested hills slope upward, and behind the lush green of the trees, rugged mountains creased with snow appear.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
• In New York, the track beds are open, and platforms slope subtly toward them, so that water flows off.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
• But in the wake of the incident, his career continued to slope upwards.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• One of my favorite choices is developing a dry creek bed that slopes away from a home's foundation.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
• If your garden lives on a sloping piece of land, some organic mulches can be subject to washing away with storm runoff.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Mar. 2026
• Jamieson said the photographed shark maintained a depth of around 1,640 feet along a seabed that sloped into deeper water.
  — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026

slope

2 of 2 noun

• What is the angle of the slope?
• They climbed the steep slope.
• You can adjust the slope of the ramp.
• The skier was the third person in the group to ride down the slope.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• Those bigger, woody plants grow the deep roots that hold the slope in place.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• The vineyard is known for its 80-year-old vines, steep slopes, and deep slate soils.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
• The pool cleaner is ideal for pools that have flat floors and no slopes.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2023
• In the Instagram post, the three smiled together on the ski slopes.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
• If the slope is less than 25 degrees, there might be little slips, but the snow won’t pick up speed.
  — Nathalie Vriend, The Conversation, 11 Jan. 2024
• At the Green Room, a ski and snowboard shop in Mammoth Lakes, screens display live video of the slopes all day.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• The city of San Clemente continues to work on the long-term stabilization of the slope.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• In other words, the downhill skier — the person who is further down the slope — has the right of way.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2023
• In the video, a Ford pickup truck on a road wrenches the Tesla vehicle up the slope.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The other thing is that the island town is based on the side of a mountain, so everything is on a slope.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2023
• Loose pebbles were perched here and there, making the path up and down the slopes all the more precarious.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• One of the drill sites was on a slope, and Briner recalled how frigid winds would stream off the ice, threatening to blow their tents away.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• Tom Brady and his kids are taking to the slopes to celebrate the holidays!
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
• Ski Dubai, the world’s largest indoor ski slope, is located within the Mall of the Emirates.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• At low tide, parts of the beach are carved into steep slopes that connect a narrow band of dry sand with the crashing surf.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• How, during times of drought, that same creek still flows and the wooded slopes remain cool, shaded.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Far below, framed by plunging slopes, tiny boats inched across the water.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
• A day on the ski slopes is a flurry of fun, and with the right pair of heated gloves, cold hands won’t stop you from enjoying the mountain.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• The hike to the W tree from atop the bluff consists of a harrowing descent of a few hundred feet down a 75-degree slope.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• Hit the ski slopes in winter, or spend spring and summer days hiking and taking in the mountain views.
  — Rocky Casale, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• Their home, which rests on a steep slope, wasn’t damaged, but not everyone was so lucky.
  — Ashley Soriano, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Footage from the scene shows the paraglider descending toward a slope filled with skiers and snowboarders.
  — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• This tephra fell not just over the volcano’s slopes, but over a nearby highway and residential areas.
  — Owen Clarke, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
• For example, north-facing slopes tend to warm slower than south-facing slopes.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
• More footprints — faint as bruises in the overcast light — emerged on the sandstone slope at the edge of a reservoir.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026