slopingly
IPA: sɫˈoʊpɪŋɫi
adverb
- At a slope; slantwise; obliquely.
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Examples of "slopingly" in Sentences
- The beach is endowed with white sand, slopingly elevation, clean water.
- It was one of those long, low racing boats, steered with a wheel like a motor-car, and slopingly decked over in front to shield the driver.
- Very different these from the concomitants of half a sheet of ruled paper, scrawled over as if chickens had been walking upon it, and folded slopingly, and held loosely together by a wafer!
- "The cutting of a basket twig should be made slopingly within three buds of the point whence the shoot issued; and the cutting of a hoop willow may be made so low as to leave only the swell at the bottom of the shoot.
- It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow.
- It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the harpoons, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow.
- The men had reached the main rigging and were in the very act of commencing operations when a huge sea swept unbroken under the schooner; and as the crest passed her and she settled slopingly down on the back of it, I heard the water in the hold come rushing aft, accompanied by a crashing sound below which told me that the cabin bulkhead had given way, and the next instant the water surged _up_ through the sky-light-hole in the deck, showing that she was at that moment full to the beams abaft.
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