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Example sentences for "steeply"

Lexicographically close words:
steepish; steeple; steeplechase; steepled; steeples; steepness; steeps; steept; steepy; steer
  1. For my own part I stepped on to it readily enough; but when it bent down steeply under me, and inclined to swing, the surprise was not pleasant.

  2. But east of this is the marginal land, running steeply down with short watercourses to the sea, and this is the country of the Glens of Antrim; lordship of the MacDonnells, who were also Lords of the Isles.

  3. The walk was steeply uphill now, and looking back Katherine saw Oakwood curled in its sheltering valley, and again she thought of a sleek, well fed kitten lying warm and comfortable and drowsy, at peace with all the world.

  4. The passage sloped steeply downward, with frequent turns and twists.

  5. Between these cracks, the rock rounded like elephants backs sloping steeply on either side.

  6. The grave had been dug hard by the south-east corner of the churchyard, close by a hedge of thorn, on the farther side of which the ground fell steeply to a narrow coombe.

  7. Beyond the garden lay a small orchard fringed with elms; and below this the slope fell so steeply down to the harbourthat the elm-tops concealed its shipping and all but the chimney-smoke of a busy little town on its farther shore.

  8. On either side of the landing place the cliffs rose steeply up, at a short distance from the beach.

  9. A flight of steps rose steeply from the threshold.

  10. A spidery staircase with dark wood bannisters rose steeply from one side and wound away out of sight.

  11. On one hand the land lay back to the haughlands and ordered fields, on the other it sloped steeply to the hills.

  12. Even in the blackness I could see a great hillside rising steeply to right and to left.

  13. But under Simon Lake's guidance they soon found themselves on a narrow trail which wound steeply off up the overgrown hillside.

  14. It was not long after this that, as they ran quite close to the shore, where the rocks sloped steeply down, that Mr. Chillingworth ordered the Chinaman to take in sail.

  15. The long street of the town containing some very charming peeps as you go towards the church is really a terrace on the limestone hills that rises behind the houses on the right, and falls steeply on the left.

  16. The beautiful chalk hills drop steeply down to the water's edge on the northern shores in striking contrast to the flatness of the opposite banks.

  17. Even in summer Chang-Yuan was well above the water, the shore pitching steeply to the level of the lake.

  18. The Shan-si pointed to a conical-shaped island several miles distant which raised itself steeply out of the water, on which the boy could see through his glasses clung a Chinese village.

  19. The valley is flat, and from it on each side so steeply rise the fir-crowned hills that in describing them one could almost use the word rectangular.

  20. We came to a natural rampart, wide at top, steeply descending on three sides, set in a loop of a little clear river named Yanique.

  21. The main hollow of the valley is not remarkable except that it is crossed by enormous trenches and very steeply hedged by a hill on its eastern flank.

  22. The valley which parts it from the Leipzig is steeply sided, with the banks of great lynchets.

  23. The road crosses the brook-course, and runs parallel with it for a little while to a place where the ground on the left comes down in a slanting tongue and on the right rises steeply into a big hill.

  24. The hill with the lines upon it slopes steeply down to the valley of the Ancre.

  25. She came to in most perfect style as she climbed the breast of each oncoming comber, heeling steeply to it the while and turning up a bold weather bow to meet its onslaught.

  26. Both branches of the Cowlitz Glacier cascade steeply immediately above their confluence, but the lower glacier has a gentle gradient and a fairly uneventful course.

  27. The rim of each now partially snow-filled bowl is well defined, and rises steeply from within to a sharp crest.

  28. The floor of our cell was too uneven and too steeply inclined to admit of lying down.

  29. The cross slope of Murray Hill drops steeply downward after one leaves Madison Avenue.

  30. Over the hills which tumble steeply on either side soared the vast Andes of the clouds, hanging palpable in the sapphire of a summer sky.

  31. There is flat land sparsely covered with rough grass and shrub on both sides of the Waiho, then between river and sea stretch ridge behind ridge of low bush-covered hills, the furthest jutting out steeply into the ocean.

  32. It showed him a rough country, rising steeply to the wilder mountains, .

  33. Above is the scarped mountain-top, below, long wooded slopes sinking steeply to the levels through which bends and bends again the Tennessee.

  34. Not a wandering puff of wind swept the white, snow-covered slopes that shot up steeply from either side of its wide, flat floor; nor had any stirred for several days.

  35. They slipped and slid across the frozen decks, and then made their way down a steeply inclined sort of gangway leading to the frozen surface of the river.

  36. From the terrace the ground fell steeply to a wide level plain of brown earth and emerald fields and dark clumps of trees.

  37. Sutch saw the road run steeply down in front of him between forests of pines to a little railway station.

  38. The first three miles across the Heath form a good local road, which then turns off to the right, leaving the Watling Street to climb the hill of Swanscombe, steeply up, as a tangled lane amid the dense woods.

  39. Tintagel Castle itself we approached by a path that looked perilous, but was safe enough, descending from the cliff and rising steeply to a promontory or peninsula of slaty rock, on which the ruins stand.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steeply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.