I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mountain slope (= the sides of a mountain )
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Snow lay on the steep mountain slopes.
a sloping roof
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The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof.
a steep slope
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Coffee was grown on the steep slopes.
bunny slope
nursery slope
ski slope
the slopes of a valley
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They live in houses of stone on the slopes of a wooded valley.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
eastern
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Forest situated on eastern slopes of Slieve Croob.
gentle
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The ponies were growing restless, and she shook the reins and sent them on down the gentle slope towards the house.
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The community typically occurs on peaty soils on gentle slopes or plateaus at higher altitudes.
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In the hummocky terrain of the valley floor the hollows, channels and gentle slopes are occupied by peat.
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Although this is not a beginner's resort, it's easy to escape to the more gentle slopes of Lech.
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On gentle slopes it's easy to place the foot with the sole flat; your bodyweight will then secure the points.
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It looked perfect - gentle slopes within a semi circular bowl of hills.
grassy
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On its shallow grassy slopes butterflies are still abundant, and the old chalk-loving flowers can be found.
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Carry out researches and observations wherever you spot grassy slopes and lots of people sitting them to enjoy picnics.
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The Glory shuddered to a sudden halt on the grassy slope in front of the Monument and they were thrown forward against their seat-belts.
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So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest.
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Crossing the coast road, she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall.
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Route to summit requires some tough scrambling, before a descent on the grassy northern slopes .
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The seed of City Earth lay here, now, before them physically before them - as they climbed the grassy slope .
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He strolled along the terrace below which the grassy slopes fell away steeply towards an ornamental lake.
green
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The beach shelved up to green slopes , and quite near she could see a forest begin.
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The river banks changed from jagged rock with little vegetation to luscious green slopes covered with olive trees.
high
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Huemul turned out to be a small island in lake Nahuel Huapi, high on the slopes of the Patagonian Andes.
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We gradually side stepped higher up the slope .
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CUMIÈRES: Belemnite chalk, with seams rich in sand, sandstone, clay and lignites exposed on the highest slopes .
long
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The cab skidded to a halt, its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree.
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She was concentrating on the speed and length which her stride might attain as she hurried up the long slope .
low
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The village of Juniper Green may take its name from the Juniper bushes which once covered the lower slopes of the Pentlands.
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First, the work done along the lower scientific slopes is resolutely factual.
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Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes .
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The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen.
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Here and there were young rabbits on the lower south-facing slopes .
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Subsoil Principally Belemnite chalk on the upper slopes , with Micraster chalk on the lower slopes.
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So they choose to plant grass and root crops in the few fields on the lower slopes .
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Above them rose the poor fields, littered with rock and gorse, the lower slopes of the mountain.
northern
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Route to summit requires some tough scrambling, before a descent on the grassy northern slopes .
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A sunny south-facing mound will lose more precious moisture to evaporation than a shadier northern slope .
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The largest used quarry is at Torphin on the northern slopes .
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One of the elder Falkenhayn's divisions alone left 2,200 men on the blood-soaked northern slopes of the Mort Homme.
rocky
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The farmhouse rests on a rocky slope and is surrounded by beech trees.
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I sat on the rocky slope above Gay Acres, not wanting to stain my white shorts on the grass.
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Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures.
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He was clearly uneasy as he peered down the rocky slope .
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At the next junction turn left, descend the rocky slope and through a gate.
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There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope .
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To Maggie, though, the city was dominated by the superb cathedral and the rocky slopes of the mountains.
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The trail traverses the steep, rocky slopes of Mulldonoch and continues above the valley of the Buchan Burn to Benyellary.
slippery
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Let's just hope he doesn't go down the slippery slope of drugs and booze again.
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All parties involved in the budget fiasco stand on a slippery slope .
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A third approach is to pray in aid the so-called slippery slope .
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But Catholics had started down a slippery slope .
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More importantly, once we start nibbling naughty things our willpower slides down a very slippery slope .
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The season has already started on a slippery slope .
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Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them.
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We are on a slippery slope right now.
steep
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The small village appears to be under constant threat of a landslide from the steep slopes immediately behind.
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The evergreens' roots sought anchoring crevices at the rocky summits, and clung precariously to the steep slopes .
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Usually there is a narrow reef flat separated from the lagoon floor by a steeper slope .
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope .
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He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes .
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You will see it as a great mound becoming visible at the bottom of a steep slope that you are descending.
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The harder rocks stand out as ledges, the softer ones form steep slopes .
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Before the I-point life was tenuous; indeed it faced a steep uphill slope .
upper
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In some families species have been included from the upper slope in the event of overlapping bathymetric ranges.
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Near the upper west-facing slopes , I was surprised to find woods that seemed ancient and undisturbed.
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Subsoil Principally Belemnite chalk on the upper slopes , with Micraster chalk on the lower slopes.
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Thorn scrub is widespread on the lower slopes , although the upper slopes still support secondary pine-oak woodlands.
western
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On the steep western slope where the beeches grew there was scarcely any soil, only chalk and flints.
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For hours we searched the forests on the western slopes - nothing.
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The Stir may be traced to the streams which flow from the western slopes of the Dwarf fortress of Karak Kadrin.
wooded
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The valley has wooded slopes and attractive rock formations.
■ NOUN
mountain
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It was something about the lovers skiing across the Alpine mountain slope , vanishing into the mist.
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There was a distant rumbling and crashing, which was intensified and reflected by the mountain slopes .
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Snow glowed briefly on the mountain slopes when it crackled overhead.
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Try explaining, for example, the experience of skiing down a mountain slope to a person who has never seen snow.
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The mountain goat's food supply is thinly distributed over the mountain slopes and cliff ledges, and so are the goats.
nursery
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The nursery slope can be terrifying to the person on skis for the first time, and yet boring to the expert.
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But Ilkley Moor, however exhilarating for us townies, forms only the nursery slopes of the Yorkshire Dales.
ski
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Men and women are segregated on the beaches and even the ski slopes .
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Behind them there was a ski slope , a man with two skis on his shoulder, and the blue winter sky.
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Widespread deforestation to make way for ski slopes has eroded topsoil, increasing the incidence of avalanches.
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Did Pauline break a speed record for getting a pattern off the page and on to the ski slope ?
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Either way, a ski slope of unparalleled lubricity would result.
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Practice ski lessons were arranged at the local dry ski slope .
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His remaining hair is modelled on a Dendix ski slope .
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Two dyslexic skiers on a ski slope .
■ VERB
climb
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Adventurous skiers in search of new experiences are shunning the drag-lifts and climbing the slopes themselves.
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He climbed the steep slope to the Incident Room, forcing his pace, and arrived just a little out of breath.
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The cart-track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge.
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The seed of City Earth lay here, now, before them physically before them - as they climbed the grassy slope .
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He climbed the lower slopes of Big Allen and stood, looking westwards.
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I climbed the slope to the hollow where Neil's tent was pitched.
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Wycliffe left his car on the park and climbed the slope to the street.
run
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It appears to be bounded on the west side by a considerable ditch running down the hill slope .
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Hit at a lope, running already down the slope .
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Close to the house, a narrow track ran up a slight slope .
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They could make no headway against such a cyclone, and ran back down the slope to the cover of the woods.
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It ran gently down the slope , and there it might have stopped but for Donald.
slide
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The cab separated from the trailer which turned over on its side, sliding down the slope .
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Waxing the skis helps them to slide better and some slopes have a lubrication system which further reduces friction.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be on) a/the slippery slope
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 30° slope
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the beginner slopes
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The car rolled down the slope into the lake.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally I left the car by the side of the road and we walked down a brushy slope .
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Further up, they came on hardwood forest and the angle of the slope grew gentler.
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He pressed up close, his hand resting on the slope of her thigh.
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Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures.
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Men and women are segregated on the beaches and even the ski slopes.
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Proceed down slope in second field to stile ahead.
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The slope added impetus to his speed.
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The slopes are less crowded and, more importantly, there are no lift lines.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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The roof sloped away alarmingly and, for a moment, Craig almost lost his balance.
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The green was hard and sloped away from the fairway.
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At the back of the house the land sloped away .
down
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It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east.
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Venting an attic is difficult if the roof is hipped; that is, sloping down on all four sides.
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River valleys and railway lines are usually fairly level, with the ground sloping down to the rivers.
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It sloped down slightly for about fifty feet.
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They went through a field where sheep grazed, and then through bracken that sloped down steeply to the River Dyn.
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The garden slopes down to a peaceful mill stream.
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Up-stream, it sloped down to a grassy path between the trees and the water.
gently
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Heron like the gently sloping muddy sides of canals.
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Tubac rests on the crest of a gently sloping hill.
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The narrow road sloped gently upwards.
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A virgin splay of grass traumatized by five months of snow sloped gently down to the water.
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On their left it sloped gently away and on the right it fell sheer, in steep crags.
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The grass sloped gently away from the college towards what must be the bank of the stream he had mentioned earlier.
off
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Ten minutes in Martha Street, a drink in a hotel, and then they sloped off on a train down south.
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A huddle of photographers gathered up their gear and sloped off .
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I didn't hang around to take the blame, just worked that day out and sloped off home.
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And don't think you're going to turn them out and slope off .
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In some cases it may so horrify the husband that he can't cope and slopes off .
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Fortunately, they were alright about it and sloped off .
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Somehow, in his absence the fun went out of it and I decided to slope off and join him on the flat.
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There were a few first ascents, climbed mainly before everyone got bored with the weather and sloped off abroad.
up
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Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear.
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The woods on the other side slope up toward the spruce and then the bare ledge summit of Mount Bald.
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It can be seen that the graph slopes up and although an exact relationship does not exist, a systematic ones does.
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Fit lights wherever a path changes direction or slopes up or down.
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The extension's roof sloped up at forty-five degrees to within about four feet of the roof proper.
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Berwick was a slantwise town, sloping up northwards from the harbour area, its outer walls half way up to the castle.
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The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sloping tile roof
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The garden sloped down gradually towards the sea.
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Tilt the board so that it is sloping upwards away from you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About to kiss, they slope together, crooked gothic type, with whistling mouths pushed out like daffodils.
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Colberg drew his sabre slowly and held it sloped on his shoulder.
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It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east.
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The tunnel sloped downward, and when they emerged from it they halted.
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The woods on the other side slope up toward the spruce and then the bare ledge summit of Mount Bald.