What is "steeply"

Usage examples of "steeply".

With the aid of Merel Zabio, who grabbed his left wrist and hauled while he was still using his right hand to ram the hastily furled parchment into his shirt, he somehow managed to wriggle out on to the steeply slanted tiles.

I pulled hard on the left panic handle, the nylon on the left side of the parawing opened like a slit purse, the right wing -- still catching the strong ridge lift here -- banked up steeply, the parawing turned almost upside down with its useless left wing spilling air like so much empty aluminum frame, my legs were flung out sideways as the kite threatened to stall and plummet into the rocks, my boots actually brushed stone and lichen, and then the wing was falling almost straight down, I released the left handle, the active-memory fabric on the left leading surface healed itself in an instant, and I was flying again -- although in a near vertical dive.

It is a happy Sunday party, all the picnickers in heavy clothes, the ladies with clasped parasols, the men with bowler hats and walrus moustaches, all handsomely arrayed on a blanket in a clearing, against a backdrop of steeply slanting shafts of light and trees of unbelievable grandeur.

With their help they wrenched the wagon around, although it was a tricky business on the narrow road, with the land falling away steeply on one side and rising precipitously on the other.

Vredech took in the old tower with its stained and spalling rendering and its steeply pitched slate roof, dotted with spheres of moss.

Next day we marched before the dawn, passing through country that grew continually better watered and more fertile, though it was still open plain but sloping upwards ever more steeply.

The Soviet bombers climbed steeply on afterburner, activating their own look-down radars to find targets for their missiles.

Thin slips of wood were cemented on more or less steeply inclined glassplates, at right angles to the radicles which were gliding down them.

A groom led the ponies and the two nursemaids formed a chattering rear guard The road Richard chose sloped gently down towards the river, levelling out where the Balmoral bank sloped steeply down to the waterside.

The Breach descended through path-blasted ridges of black rock, passed over deep crevasses on narrow, slippery black iron bridges with no railings, and climbed steeply up more rock ridges.

The nearer bank was open, running rather steeply down to the water, but the far side had no definable margin, the river losing itself in a wilderness of marsh, tall grass, pools and clumps of trees.

Helen Steeply was taken by female prorector Thierry Poutrincourt, freshly showered, long-faced, a non-U.

Mildewing old houses tottered overhead, their steeply slanting roofs like capes slung over narrow shoulders, making them furtive.

But at some time in the past it had also been a streamway, for the rocks lining it were well worn, forming irregular stairs leading steeply upward.

Observing what happens where the action takes place on the surface of bare rock, we may notice that the grains of sand or small pebbles which generally abound on such surfaces, if they be not too steeply inclined, dance about under the blows which they receive.