Collocations for "slope"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "slope" in context.
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slope
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [downhill, slalom, professional] ski slope
- a [ten] -degree slope
- a [slippery, sunny, wet] slope
- learning on the [children's, beginner's] slope
- the [property, house, block, roof] is on a slope
- a slope down to the [lake, river]
- the [road, path, track] is on a slope
- came [speeding, hurtling] down the ski slope
- had a [fall, crash] on the slope
- [slithered, slid, tumbled] down the slope
- [ran, cycled, drove] down the slope
- pulled the [cart, wagon] up the slope
- [pushed, pedaled] the bike up the slope
- the sharp slopes of the [hills, valleys, mountain]
- a slope with a [steep, sharp] gradient
- the [angle, degree, gradient] of the slope
- the slopes of Mount [Everest, Kilimanjaro]
- figurative: you're going down a slippery slope
- slope [downward, upward, down, up]
- slope a [roof, driveway, path]
- the roof sloped [downward]
- slopes down to a [river, stream, meadow]
- slopes off to the [left, right]
- his handwriting slopes (to the left, to the right)
- slope down the [hill, mountain, hillside]
- slope off into the [distance, skyline, landscape]
- slope [arms, a rifle, a weapon]
- UK: slope off [unhappily, suddenly, ashamedly]
- UK: sloping about [town, the beach, the office]
'slope' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):