How to use in-sentence of “steep”:
– A ravine usually has steep sides, and they are 20-70% in gradient.
– In the wild, deer browsing of yews is often so extensive that wild yew trees are restricted to cliffs and steep slopes inaccessible to deer.
– When a member of the herd picks up the slightest hint of danger, it makes a high-pitched warning call, causing the other guanacos to flee swiftly and nimbly across the steep and uneven terrain.
– The sidewalls vary from very steep to precipitous.
– Once they see the prey, the bird makes a short, steep dive.
– Black tea must steep for 3–5 minutes in boiling water.
– It is less steep than a trench.
– While the west and north-west coasts have sandy beaches, the south and southeast coasts form steep cliffs.
Example sentences of “steep”:
- Tourists, or visitors, were once able to climb some of the pyramids, but it was quite challenging because the steps are very steep and small.
- Two castles from the 14th - 18th centuries are on the steep right bank of the Nemen.
- There is a steep hill, on one side, and a canal, with no road access on the other side.
– Tourists, or visitors, were once able to climb some of the pyramids, but it was quite challenging because the steps are very steep and small.
– Two castles from the 14th – 18th centuries are on the steep right bank of the Nemen.
– There is a steep hill, on one side, and a canal, with no road access on the other side.
– The steep slope leading into Ampthill was the model for the ‘Hill of Difficulty’.
– Around 4 pm on the same day, the Japanese army, which abandoned the battlement, climbed a steep cliff and firing the enemy from the mountain with their rifles on the left side of the defenders, and it was a fierce night battle.
– It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position.
– These form a landscape characterised by steep sided limestone hills and flat, fertile valleys.
– To the north is bounded by a line beginning a steep slope into the valley Vrbanja river, on the line elevation of 1,220 and 1140, and on the south with Ilomska valley.
– The Joker Stairs are a set of steep stairs connecting Shakespeare and Anderson Avenues at West 167th Street in the Highbridge, BronxHighbridge section of the Bronx, New York City.
– When it is exposed at the Earth’s surface, it may form a cliff or steep slope called a “fault scarp”.
– Advanced longboarders may be seen “sliding” to slow their boards on really steep hills.
– It has poor access with steep ramps, stairs, and no lifts.
– The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep slopes down to the Severn valley and the Avon.
– This makes them able to climb very steep slopes, like those on hills and mountains.
– When the mortar bomb is launched, it descends at a very steep angle.
– The town is surrounded by a pocket of steep hills within the Maun Valley.
– There has been a steep increase in violent armed robberies carried out by minors.
– Because gasoline was fed to the engine only by gravity, and also because the reverse gear offered more power than the forward gears, the Model T frequently had to be driven up a steep hill backward.
– A number of Paris Métro lines use trains that have tirerubber tires along with wheels made of steel; this helps the trains run better and smoother especially on steep gradients.
– For trekkers it is one of the technically easiest 5000m passes in Indian Himalaya, involving no glacier trekking nor steep climbs.
More in-sentence examples of “steep”:
– Woodland on the steep slopes includes remnants of ancient woodland but other areas are more recently planted.
– The preceding weather in North America saw a steep temperature gradient, which strengthened the jet stream in the North Atlantic.
– Hairpin turns may be built when a road or path climbs up or down a steep slope.
– The arrival descent is extremely steep over the hilltop traffic circle and departing planes fly right over the heads of sunbathers.
– The term ‘badlands’ is apt: badlands have steep slopes, loose dry soil, slick clay, and deep sand, all of which act against travel and other uses.
– Today, Queen Mary’s Peak makes a wonderful but steep climbing route.
– Much of the rest of the state is very hilly, partly due to the closeness to mountains and partly due to the steep river valleys in the state.
– Fluvial terrace consists of two parts; a tread, which is the flat surface at the upper side of fluvial terrace, and a scarp, which is the steep slope connecting the tread to the downside.
– The hilly and steep granite islands in the west were once the tops of mountains which became islands when the sea levels rose 8,000 years ago.
– If the sheep runs, they pursue it down steep mountainsides, using the momentum of their initial leap to chase prey for up to.
– He can also come down at a steep angle and pound the ground to knock enemies out.
– Because the town is at the bottom of a steep valley it wasn’t suitable for the railway.
– They stop to rest near the top of steep hill.
– The subsidence of the ground has created a steep cliff similar to the one in Pae Muang Phi in Phrae Province.
– In the 1830s, at the peak of the canal-building era, hydropower was used to transport barge traffic up and down steep hills using inclined plane railroads.
– The area has some apricot orchards, and vines on steep slopes.
– Ocean trenches have relatively steep sides falling to the ocean floor.
– That is why riding a bike up a steep hill is very hard, but when you are coming back down, you will not need to pedal at all – you are being powered by the gravitational potential energy that you stored when you rode up the hill.
– These rocks were cut by rivers, the Irwell and its tributaries, to make steep valleys.
– Visitors reach the memorial by treading a steep path of irregular granite steps, intended to symbolise a pilgrimage.
– To the east, the Bucegi Mountains have a very steep slope.
– The steep incline of its peak that rises above the ground far below makes Nanga Parbat a difficult and dangerous climb.
– Typically, streams are said to have a particular profile, beginning with steep gradients, no flood plain, and little shifting of channels, eventually evolving into streams with low gradients, wide flood plains, and extensive meanders.
– This limits the aircraft types that can be used, and so does the length of the runway and the steep glideslope.
– It had a steep face, a raised knob on the upper jaw, and a larger knob on the cheekbone.
- Woodland on the steep slopes includes remnants of ancient woodland but other areas are more recently planted.
- The preceding weather in North America saw a steep temperature gradient, which strengthened the jet stream in the North Atlantic.
- Hairpin turns may be built when a road or path climbs up or down a steep slope.
– The short airstrip is at the base of a steep hill ending directly on the beach.
– Khao Somphot Non-hunting Area A high and steep limestone mountain range stretching along the southwestern direction, full of caves and cliffs.
– The rest is steep to mountainous, reaching 900 metres.
– In vector calculus, the gradient of a multivariate function measures how steep a curve is.
– Because of the hills and valleys which would need tight curves and steep slopes, one scheme suggested a gauge of, already being used on other lines like the Ffestiniog Railway, to make building the line easier.
– Milwaukee’s terrain is sculpted by the glacier path and includes steep bluffs along Lake Michigan that begin about a mile north of downtown.
– Green tea must steep for 2–3 minutes in water at.
– Termeer created a business model created by many others in the biotech industry by creating steep prices— mainly from insurers and government payers— for therapies for rare genetic disorders known as orphan diseases that mainly affect children.
– A cliff is a vertical or very steep natural wall of rock.
– Because of the steep hills the New South Wales Government Railways built the railway a few kilometres from the town.
– The track is as steep at the top as it is on the black line.
– Now there are beautiful steep cliffs and waterfalls.
– This fort built on the ridge of a steep narrow hill is well preserved.
– To their left was a steep bank; to their right was the circus train.
– The long trail went across rivers and streams, deep ravines, steep ridges, and thick jungle.
– As the road to the pass is steep and too narrow for large vehicles, the Kohat Tunnel was constructed and opened in June, 2003.
– Some steep hills are the remains of volcanoes.
– They must cross a floating ice shelf, then up onto the ice-covered land, up steep mountain glaciers covered in broken, twisted ice slowly sliding to the sea, and across a high level land covered in ice and swept by strong freezing winds.
– Up a steep climb on a cobbled street is the Cathedral Square.
– Afromontane Forest grows on the steep sides of the ravines.
– This frog lives near rocky cliffs and steep slopes with large amounts of loose rock.
– The other path leads up a steep mountain.