incline

It’s not the craziest hike — it’s actually pretty calm — but there are a couple of incline points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The visitor descends a long gentle incline, passing a wall of polished black granite that records the names of the 58,000 American soldiers who died in that war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

"I spoke about Paris being a reference point where hopefully we'll see a pretty steep incline in terms of performances," said Doris.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

My legs are beginning to hurt though and there's that slight incline round the corner.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

I pushed it up the incline and the man let me ride as far as the Athens highway.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Mr. Waterfield inclines toward Hobbes’s “they that have odds of power exact as much as they can, and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The same can be said of Pabst himself, whose monomaniacal devotion to his art inclines him to ugly compromises.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

There are a couple of entr’actes in which the clown, teased by his former supervisor, inclines toward the Grinchy.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

Routes such as those served by TransPennine – which leant Hitachi the test Class 802 train – have inclines which require more energy, shortening the overall distance it could travel unaided.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

It’s a ton of work—clearing the rocks, digging trenches for the thick slabs of wood to make the edges of the trails or to create steps on the steep inclines up a hill.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Dylan said he might be inclined to quit altogether.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Spiritually inclined YouTubers discussed medbed healing in videos about frequencies, crystals, and fifth-dimension consciousness.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

They suggested that could lead investors studying past behavior to “misprice this option that borrowers will be more inclined to exercise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

If the downward trend in housing remains intact, the Fed might be inclined to do nothing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

No one seemed inclined to shed any light on the matter.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

The young woman in the sepia-toned photograph curtsies gracefully, inclining her head and smiling sweetly at the camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

The sickening realization of the Titanic's imminent fate came when Jessop turned to say something to a fellow stewardess and saw that the "forward part" of the ship was inclining toward the dark ocean.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

She would like to see changes, inclining a Senedd creche, the introduction of job shares and an increase in the number of MSs to decrease workload.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2021

The rig pitched to the south, away from the beach, her derrick cutting obliquely across the sky and her helipad inclining at an angle that to the human eye read as almost apologetic.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2017

They were unquestionably different from woods further south—darker, more shadowy, inclining more to black than green.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson