incline

As the incline got steeper, I opened the companion app on my phone and pressed “Boost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

We trekked up a steep incline to quickly discover signs for white oil bubbling out of the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

The inquest heard it was not possible to know whether the campervan's handbrake had been left off before it rolled down the steep incline.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

“That is more difficult. The English, they do not stab. You are right there. I incline to the view that someone else dropped the pipe cleaner—and did so to incriminate the long-legged Englishman.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

We trudged on, working our way up and down the steep inclines.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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

Its long, steep inclines lay broad and desolate; its high-curbed gutters swarmed, most winter nights, with traveling rain.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

"This is a time when we really need to hear what's happening," Erik Slavin said, adding that Pentagon officials appeared to be "less and less inclined to speak on the record".

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Other apps might even be inclined to deploy a sunny icon, because technically it is going to be warm in most of that area, and watery only in a different section.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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

The question was directed at Lazlo, since he seemed more inclined to speak than the other two.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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