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

But traipse past the principal’s office, scale a short incline, and you’ll be rewarded with an 80-foot-long mural that explodes with color.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Cardio is different forms of interval running four days a week, and then walking on the treadmill on a steep incline two days a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

I am at an incline, slowly inching closer and closer to the jagged cavernous opening.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

“If you have to venture north or south, you are destined to hit inclines that are not for every able body.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

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

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

He is rarity - as a mountainous country Eritrea mostly produces "climbers", cyclists who race especially well on steep inclines.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

Trees can also deter destructive creatures like caterpillars by flooding their leaves with tannin, which makes the leaves less tasty and so inclines the caterpillars to look elsewhere.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Our critic raved that “Both indoors and out, Porter proved that there was beauty where one was inclined to behold it. This show is an invaluable opportunity to do just that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

"Financial markets are inclined to short-sightedness," analysts at Metzler Asset Management in Germany said in a note.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

That night, a million hushed “sorry!’s” could be heard throughout the auditorium as hordes of alternatively inclined women — because there were mostly women — flattened themselves to move through their row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

So, even if you were inclined to treat midcaps as a distinct asset class, you’d still need to know whether they are about to outperform or underperform the smallest or largest stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

He and the Ghost and the Bomb are not precisely my friends, but they actually seem to like me, and I am not inclined to split hairs.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

Since then, the pair's paths have diverged, with Appleblim's housier releases inclining more towards the dancefloor, and Shackleton's series of Drawbar Organ EPs offering playful experimentalism.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2013

Floyd, with his sloping shoulders and inclining chin—Dick had thought he’d be too afraid.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote