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Example sentences for "gentle slope"

  • On emerging from the dell we found a gentle slope before us, covered with hard ice, down which our pulks flew like the wind.

  • It has eight or nine houses, scattered along a gentle slope a mile in length, and a little red church, but neither gardens, fields, nor potato patches.

  • The 'Bradshaws' is on the brow of a gentle slope, at the base of which flows a rivulet called the Tweed.

  • The castle stood on a grassy knoll, steep on one side, with a gentle slope to the south.

  • But in those days it continued along the left bank of the Cock to beyond Stutton, crossed the little brook by Renshaw Wood, and led up a gentle slope to the hamlet of Towton.

  • It forms a perfectly even plain, extending back with a gentle slope to the head of a deep notch between the two northern Sisters, while above and beyond rise the steeper snow-fields, from which this ice is continually renewed.

  • Now it zigzags back and forth down a gentle slope, but is soon stopped by another precipice.

  • In southwestern Wyoming the continental divide, known as the Great Divide mesa, though more than a mile above the sea, is but a continuation of the long, gentle slope of the Great Plains.

  • There was a good growth of trees upon a gentle slope, a few rods from shore, and a beach well strewn with drift-wood.

  • Exactly two hundred feet behind the angle formed by the river, the wall, terminated by a fall of rocks, died away in a gentle slope to the edge of the forest.

  • The roofs are pitched, but with a gentle slope.

  • The houses are spread over a gentle slope, to the very edge of a little barranca.

  • The whole country hereabouts is composed of monoclines, all the crests presenting one long, gentle slope, with rocks dipping with the slope, and one abrupt short slope, cutting the strata.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear brothers; fell into; gentle birth; gentle blood; gentle breeze; gentle heat; gentle lady; gentle reader; gentle slope; gentle smile; gentle voice; gentleman born; gentleman commoner; gentleman friend; gentleman from; gross matter; march against; natural religion; never knew; not like; private library; this truth; upper leaves; watering places; will never; years male