Sample Sentences fordeclivity (editor-reviewed)
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The hikers carefully made their way down the steep declivity of the mountain trail.declivity = downward slope
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Physical declivity takes her from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair.declivity = downward slope (metaphorically)
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The road ahead was a long, winding declivity that descended into the valley below.declivity = downward slope
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But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island. (source)declivities = downward slopes
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If the woman got into the scrub before being caught, and if she knew her way, she could lose her pursuers by zigging and zagging from one narrow declivity to another.† (source)
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Joad speeded his pace against the sun, and he started down the declivity.† (source)
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He had rolled down a declivity of twelve or fifteen feet.† (source)
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Who knows what pleasant surprises await us amid their steep declivities?† (source)
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There was no sign of the car, although once when the horses slowed to pick their way down a steep declivity, I thought I heard the sound of a motor.† (source)
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As under a great storm black earth is drenched on an autumn day, when Zeus pours down the rain in scudding gusts to punish men, annoyed because they will enforce their crooked judgments and banish justice from the market place, thoughtless of the gods' vengeance; all their streams run high and full, and torrents cut their way down dry declivities into the swollen sea with a hoarse clamor, headlong out of hills, while cultivated fields erode away— such was the gasping flight of the Trojan horses.† (source)
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His heavy, attractive wife sat by him with the parasol, languorous, partly in smiles, with her free, soft, brown fist on her lap and strong hair bobbed with that declivity that you see in pictures of the Egyptian coif, the flat base forming a black brush about the back of the neck.† (source)
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He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the path; he seemed to be counting each bush.† (source)
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The hidden garden in which the four men sat at table lay some twenty feet below the south end of this terrace, and was a mere shelf of rock, overhanging a steep declivity planted with vineyards.† (source)
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Along both ranges of hills, which bounded the opposite sides of the lake and valley, clouds of light vapor were rising in spiral wreaths from the uninhabited woods, looking like the smoke of hidden cottages; or rolled lazily down the declivities, to mingle with the fogs of the lower land.† (source)
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He went over the brim of the declivity and began to climb down.† (source)
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pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond, from the M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun.† (source)
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