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Example sentences for: steeply

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If you continue east on N-124, you’ll pass rolling hills and come to the pretty village of Salir, which is built on the edge of a steeply rising ridge and has two fine lookout points.
USA Today leads with President Clinton's expected proposal today of a $280 million increase in federal funds targeting the enforcement of current gun control laws, a move the paper says is explicitly calculated to meet a recurring NRA criticism: that federal firearms prosecutions have steeply declined under Clinton.
North of Portalegre is the pleasant town Castelo de Vide, whose 14th-century castle is surrounded by gleaming houses that nuzzle against the steeply sloping hill.
The Ida Mountains (also known as the Psilorítis range) dominate central Crete, rising steeply from the coastal plain and crowned by Mount Ida itself, measuring a distinguished 2,456 m (8,058 ft).
The road rises and falls, twists and turns as it crosses ridge after jungle ridge, sloping steeply westward like the backs of great green animals leaning down to drink from the sea.