What is "downslide"

Usage examples of "downslide".

Young Marius had called to discuss his seeking the consulship, through the season of artificially induced joy and confidence, through the downslide of the terrible winter, to the yawning pit which had been the defeat at Sacriportus.

Few states chose to spend the money on libraries, and the downslide began.

She could see the others trying to grab at the sides of the metal slide-all trying desperately to slow their downslide speed, but to no avail.

Steve was suddenly on a downslide, his mood altering rapidly, moving into depression.

Monique was at the peak of her beauty and slenderness, teetering on the inevitable downslide through her late thirties.

Striker parked the jeep across the street from a three-story, red-brick building in a neighborhood that had been on the downslide for a decade.

Roberts suddenly found himself rising in the air, halfway up from the game floor, an emerald pillar glittering off to his right, the golden sheathing of the downslide curving through the air before him.

Florida had been harder than John had expected, but the economy was on a downslide, and no one wanted to hire a grim, quiet ex-priest with no practical job skills.

However, the downslide of her lips, the trapping of his flesh in a moist, silken, hellishly sweet mouth, won out.

Rhoda worked her way toward the downslide, emerging in the center aisle of the orchestra, into the Horseshoe, around the pit, and onto the Stage.

The entire Cushman household seemed to be on a downslide, with Lindy and Betsy its innocent victims.