Example sentences for: steeply

How can you use “steeply” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The use of eponyms in medicine is steeply on the decline, but ordinary eponyms, linguistic experts say, are enjoying a growth spurt these days.

  • Seed plant and mammalian family richness per unit area declines more steeply in the northern hemisphere than in the south (Woodward 1987; Gaston et al.

  • The view of the town from the harbor is outstanding: Squat white houses with red terracotta roofs climb steeply through tropical greenery all around the spacious bay.

  • It is set on the ribbon-thin Water of Leith, whose narrow valley drops steeply here.

  • The world’s oldest rainforests engulf low but steeply rising mountain chains that cross the peninsula from east to west like ribs, with one long north–south Main Range as their backbone.


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