sloping upward

Intense lines register loud moments, soft blurred patches are quiet hums, and a stack of bars sloping upward might represent the bugling of an elk or the howling of a coyote.

Only now the soil is several inches higher than it was, sloping upward behind the ladder.

The agreement is backloaded, with the disbursements gently sloping upward in the first two years and increasing significantly in Years 3 through 7.

The bricks appear to be suspended in the air, in a brick road-like formation, slowly sloping upward, or perhaps restaging their descent.

The Minskoff Theater stage wasn’t sloping upward as it should during “Circle of Life.”