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as in sloping
running in a slanting direction the sloped arrangement of the pictures along the staircase wall should follow the line of the banister

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verb

past tense of slope
as in tilted
to set or cause to be at an angle they sloped our new driveway too steeply and now my car scrapes bottom whenever I back out onto the street

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Recent Examples of sloped
Adjective
Common areas feature self-operating lifts or sloped entryways. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2026 The Karine armchair has some serious potential to become your new favorite chair with its sloped arms and relaxed silhouette, energized by a mellow shade of green. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 6 July 2026 Even the roof can be chosen in a flat, gable, or sloped style, with interior configurations to match. Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 22 June 2026 His sloped shoulders suggested bodily power that was sleepy and sly; his large head and dark, badly cut hair amplified the weight and solidity of him, but his lips were sensitive and a little slack, as if yearning for something he’d been long deprived of. Mary Gaitskill, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026 The sloped, landscaped half-acre lot offers a terrace and a two-car garage. The Week Us, TheWeek, 30 Jan. 2026 This can prevent sloped roofs from shedding snow properly and cause snow to accumulate on flat or low-slope roofs, FEMA said. Bailey Allen, The Providence Journal, 28 Jan. 2026 Each wing was connected to the main structure with long colonnades, hidden from street view by trees and sloped lawns. Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026 Snipers set up on a very sloped roof on a suspect barricaded in a motel. Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
Across from the bed, the ceiling sloped precipitously, with a dormer cut into it. Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026 The coast is dotted with colorful fishing villages, while the region’s interior is made up of rolling green hills and gently sloped vineyards. Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026 Most lawns are sloped to create clear drainage paths away from the home. Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 But the fields that sloped toward the turquoise sea weren’t about to be cultivated with the vines of Merlot grapes or Regona cider apple trees or even acorns to be transmuted into jamón Ibérico. Tamar Adler, Vogue, 3 June 2026 Eco effort The villas are mainly run on solar power (each villa’s roof is slightly sloped to accommodate these solar panels), and the resort is single plastic-free. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026 Leaking faucets, pipes, and air conditioning units should be repaired, and the ground next to the foundation should be sloped so that surface water drains away from the building. Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 14 May 2026 The roof is sloped to encourage drainage that prevents water and debris from piling up, and is broken up into two levels to allow for an open ventilation panel to let hot air escape while keeping rainwater out. Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026 Its right legs leaned so severely that the whole top sloped. Noz Nozawa, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloped
Adjective
  • Gates open to a sloping, 700-foot-long driveway that passes by whimsical sculptures before arriving at a spacious cobblestone motor court.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026
  • There was a casual feel in Memorial Auditorium in the hour before game time, as children kicked a ball around on the auditorium’s sloping floor.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • We humans from time to time are tilted heavily toward the darkness, but the ultimate counter to that seems to be religion.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The combined effect is that the overall playing field has tilted in favor of the Islamic Republic.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The lineup is also without 3B Matt Chapman (abdominal strain) and OFs Harrison Bader (plantar fasciitis), Jonah Cox (oblique) and Victor Bericoto (oblique).
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026
  • Well, Jonah Cox is nearly recovered from his oblique injury and could merit a longer look.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • These are angled at 71 degrees when deployed, which happens automatically at 71 mph.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Last year, the 49ers traded Samuel for a fifth-round draft pick to the Washington Commanders, the franchise that Brandon Aiyuk has unsuccessfully angled to join since walking out on the 49ers last season.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • The other Zhang leaned into was incorporating the essence of Jean Grey and the character’s comic book ties to the Phoenix.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
  • If a system leaned too heavily on on-page textual signals, people could just overstuff their content with word bloat to artificially boost ranking.
    Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Sloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloped. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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