slopes
Example Sentences
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ITHACA, N.Y.—On a drizzly Thursday, Cornell University students wandered into consulting recruitment sessions, hustled up the slopes to midterms and listened to a Pulitzer-winning fiction writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
At the same time, warming is destabilising permafrost - permanently frozen ground that can thaw as temperatures rise - and high mountain slopes, increasing the possibility of cascading hazards, the report says.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Researchers at the University of Montpellier's Laboratory of Geography and Land Planning have developed evacuation routes that account for slopes, obstacles, walking speeds, and potential bottlenecks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Wetlands, steep slopes, flood zones, contaminated soil, or any other number of issues could prevent this new home from meeting local standards.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Down their slopes the flame ran to the low-lying valleys and the dark forest lands, until all things everywhere were ablaze.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
