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Example sentences for "steep"

Lexicographically close words:
steeling; steels; steely; steelyard; steelyards; steepe; steeped; steepened; steeper; steepest
  1. Blueberry and Cocoanut Soup= Steep grated cocoanut in rich blueberry juice in a not too hot place for 20 m.

  2. To flavor with cocoanut, when the fibre is not desired, steep (do not boil) the cocoanut in milk for 15-20 m.

  3. For Yellow, steep saffron in boiling water for A1/2-1 hour and strain when cold.

  4. Steep leaves or poor stalks of celery in milk for 15 m.

  5. Steep the dried herb in the water for a half hour; strain, add the sugar and boil until a little will harden when dropped in cold water; pour on to buttered tins and when sufficiently cool cut into sticks with oiled knife.

  6. For coffee cream, steep (not boil) cereal coffee in milk for 10 to 20 m.

  7. Our horses, mules, and donkeys were with us, but camels could not negotiate the steep slopes and remained on the high ground above us along with the wheeled transport.

  8. The actual crest of Bab-el-Muallek was most uncomfortable, as shells were bursting all along it; but though they searched the back of the hill most thoroughly, it was so steep that we were pretty safe so long as we lay snug.

  9. It was an awful night, and the track was so steep and slippery that the camels could not get on, and there was broken-down transport every few hundred yards along the track which was charitably described on the map as a road.

  10. The track down into the wadi was so steep and slippery from the rain that donkeys were actually lowered down in some places by their tails.

  11. To begin with, we found that camels, loaded with water fanatis, could not negotiate the steep faces of sand, so we had to do our best with the Lewis gun mules, carrying the fanatis only half full.

  12. The battalion in front of us had to descend the steep and slippery side of the Wadi Selman, which was just like a mud slide, and we had to stand at the top for more than half an hour.

  13. Add to this the fact that all, except the posts, could walk about during the day in the open quite covered from view by the steep slope mentioned above, consequently it was trench warfare under the most pleasant possible conditions.

  14. The gangway was very steep and slippery and the men were so overloaded, each carrying a bundle of firewood as well as full equipment, and a pick and a shovel, that nearly everyone, like William the Conqueror, bit the dust on landing.

  15. I quote from memory, but I think certain of the lines run more or less like this: Look how the dawn in russet mantle clad Stands on the steep of yon high eastern hill.

  16. Some of these good people dwelt in log huts, with the black forest all around them, on the steep and difficult hillsides.

  17. Soon he came back as heartless, as affectionate, as vain, as unprincipled as ever, to laugh and loiter about the steep street of Haworth.

  18. The village of Haworth stands, steep and grey, on the topmost side of an abrupt low hill.

  19. During the Christmas holidays of 1837, old Tabby fell on the steep and slippery street and broke her leg.

  20. The village ran sheer down at her feet; but she could not walk down the steep rough-paven street, nor on the pathless moors.

  21. Such hills, more steep than high, are congregated round, circle beyond circle, to the utmost limit of the horizon.

  22. At length at a steep part of the road the vehicle stopped.

  23. The railway winds through high hills and makes sharp curves and steep ascents and descents.

  24. Wherever the hills were treeless and too steep for cultivation they were carefully cut for fodder.

  25. The rest of the male population of Fayence was buying and selling outside in the market, or in the shops, or talking together on the terrace steps above the place, or in the cafes, or walking up and down the steep streets.

  26. A steep and narrow lane leads up through the still inhabited quarter of the town, past the old but rebuilt Hotel de Ville to the place where the new road comes in and the two inns are situated.

  27. I sat for half an hour outside a little inn before I climbed the last steep slope to the ruins above me.

  28. I turned and ran down the steep street to get my camera.

  29. If she is prest by want of food She from her dwelling in the wood Repairs to a road-side; And there she begs at one steep place Where up and down with easy pace The horsemen-travellers ride.

  30. For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream.

  31. We were on a ledge of a steep rocky wall some fifty feet above a wide level landscape.

  32. From our cage, the sloping gleaming white surface of his stiff glossy shirt bosom went down a steep incline.

  33. The road from Sheringham ran down a steep hill, called the Fox Hill, to the little village that lay cosily at some distance from the sea.

  34. Descending, we climbed the steep ascent to the summit of a hill, where, after sweeping the surrounding country with a small pair of powerful glasses I carried, I at last discerned the aeroplane heading westward some ten miles distant.

  35. In ascending the short, steep hill in the semi-darkness, we passed the North Queensferry post office, beside which he stopped short to peer down the dark alley which separated it from the Roxburgh Hotel.

  36. We explored the steep hills of Cromdale and Glen Tulchan, surveyed the rugged country from the summit of Carn Glas, and made judicious inquiry in all quarters, both among village people, shepherds, and others.

  37. Dry enough it is now, and the primroses love its steep banks; but a gloomy enough place in those days, no doubt, with its twenty feet of stagnant water.

  38. When walking down a steep hill all the weight of the body is forced into the toe of the boot, and when the boot is two sizes too small for you, and you have been living in it since the early afternoon, you remember a thing like that.

  39. The mountains around it were steep and beautifully formed.

  40. The wild geese thanked their good fortune that they had found a sand-strip large enough for them to stand upon, on a steep mountain wall.

  41. Trees grow there also, but the wind's power is so great that trees have to transform themselves into clinging vines, that they may get a firm hold on the steep precipices.

  42. In some places were high, steep banks, in others drift-sand fields, where the sand lay heaped in banks and hills.

  43. Before they began to clamber up these narrow and steep steps, they listened again with great attention.

  44. But here the great logs were drawn up and down steep hills; here the poor horses must be worked to their limit, and the driver must often be in peril.

  45. He thought it looked as though the whole island had in the beginning been just such a high, steep cliff as Karl's Island--though much bigger of course.

  46. He turned toward the stream; and as soon as he caught sight of the wild geese, he threw the fish away, and rushed down the steep shore and into the river.

  47. For now they must brew the Christmas ale, steep the Christmas fish in lye, and do their Christmas baking and Christmas scouring.

  48. You'll find steep ravines that are deeply chiselled in the mountain's sides; and black crags that have become smooth and shiny under the constant lashing of the winds.

  49. He was on his way down the steep hill leading out of Skansen, when he met an island fisherman coming along with his game bag.

  50. They entered a long winding channel and steamed this way and that until one day they sailed into a fine broad harbor with a magnificent city rising far up the steep sides of a hill.

  51. It was slow work, and sometimes the climb was so steep they held their breath, as they crept over a sheer ledge and saw the depth below to which they might easily be hurled.

  52. The mountain paths were steep and difficult and the travelers knew that often the head-hunters lurked near.

  53. A rugged drive winds on one side up the steep ascent, and a long and dizzy flight of wooden steps ascend from the street on the opposite side.

  54. Fear instantly decided me, and I ran, guided by one of the ladies, who pointed down the steep slope of the hill, and left me to run back for a shawl.

  55. He came into the foothills and swung the car upward, climbing over the steep mountainsides.

  56. He stumbled after her, clawing his way up the steep slope, slipping and grabbing the branches with his hands and hauling himself up the rocks.

  57. The rush of her impetuous passage almost scared the carriage-horses over the verge of the steep hill; and still she clattered further and the crags echoed to her flight, and still the groom flogged vainly in pursuit of her.

  58. Here it was rocky and stony, and lay on the steep scarps of the ravine; here it was choked with brambles; and there, in fairy haughs, it lay for a few paces evenly on the green turf.

  59. The road had now issued from the valleys in which it had been winding, and come to that part of its course where it runs, like a cornice, along the brow of the steep northward face of Grünewald.

  60. The day was come, plain and garish; and up the steep and solitary eastern heaven, the sun, victorious over his competitors, continued slowly and royally to mount.

  61. Through the lenses were discernible three tiny figures, apparently running toward the summit as fast as the steep incline allowed.

  62. Armitage produced a pocket telescope of considerable power and scanned the steep green side of the hill.

  63. There came a period when people were curious enough to steal up and count the herd that grazed precariously on the steep hillside above the old farmhouse, and they could never find more than ten or twelve anemic, bloodless-looking specimens.

  64. It was a pretty place nestling at the foot of a steep wood-capped hill, with fruit trees and fields, in which harvesting had already begun, all round it.

  65. Our object was to come out in the steep bank of the moat on a level with the ice and crawl across on a dark night.

  66. There were several villages close to the frontier through which passed railways, and two or three of them had steep hills to the north of them.

  67. We were both very tired, and struggled on, with great difficulty and several rests, up a steep hill through the longest village I have ever seen.

  68. After crossing a ride, I climbed a steep bank and came out on to a sort of plateau, about 100 yards across.

  69. From the parados a grass bank sloped down to a broad gravel walk, and from this another steep bank dropped some 20 feet into the inner court.

  70. There was a steep hill in front of us with the village of Nordholz on a river at the bottom of it.

  71. About 5 o'clock we got into an excellent and safe hiding-place on a steep bank above the road.

  72. I was slightly ahead of the other two, and when I got to the bottom of the steep bank I gave a little jump on to the ice, hoping it would break at the edge rather than in the middle if it were going to break at all.

  73. On the far side of the road was a steep bank with a barbed wire fence on the top, and from there terraced gardens sloped steeply up a hill and away from the camp.

  74. Thirty Cossacks fired as it were straight into the faces of the crowd, and after the firing slipped like lightning down the steep walls of the ravine, among the terrified and confused peasants.

  75. Some tried to escape over the steep wall of the ravine, and wounding their hands with climbing, fell back on the sabre's edge.

  76. Since you have respected her it is to be seen that you have knightly honor and conscience; but how will you extend to her the hand which you steep in my innocent blood?

  77. The seas were not regular; they ran in short, steep ridges, and gave the tug no time to lift.

  78. The explosive snorts indicated that the locomotive labored up the last steep pitch, and Lister sat down by the rails.

  79. A row of young men and women followed a ledge that crossed the face of the steep crag; Mortimer Hyslop leading, a girl and Vernon a few yards behind, Lister and Barbara farther off.

  80. A yard or two beneath her, the sloping rock vanished at the top of a steep pitch and one saw nothing but the crags across the narrow dale.

  81. She was swept by the sparkling showers, but the showers were warm, and the combers were not often steep enough to flood her deck.

  82. To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of ~; to treat with ~.

  83. Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

  84. Business investment remains listless because of low rates of capital utilization, sluggish demand, high debt, and the steep cost of capital.

  85. Along a steep and difficult mountain path, the crater of the Gedéh may be reached in an hour and a half, and the sight of the gigantic crater of this majestic volcano is said to be overwhelming and ample compensation for the toilsome ascent.

  86. From Tjibeureum, the path winds up a steep ascent, and through a narrow cleft in the rocks, a natural gateway to which the natives have attached some wonderful legends.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; abrupt; abstruse; acme; aerial; airy; apex; arduous; ascending; aspiring; bathe; bluff; bold; boundless; breakneck; breathe; brew; brutal; color; colossal; complex; concentrate; crag; critical; dear; delicate; demanding; difficult; distill; douche; dredge; drench; dye; egregious; elevated; elevation; eminence; eminent; enormous; escarpment; ether; ethereal; exacting; exaggerated; exalted; excessive; exorbitant; expensive; express; extravagant; extreme; fabulous; face; fancy; flavor; flush; formidable; gigantic; gluttonous; hairy; hard; haughty; headlong; heaven; height; high; imbrue; imbue; immoderate; impregnate; incontinent; infiltrate; infuse; ingrain; inject; inoculate; inordinate; instill; intemperate; intricate; invest; knotted; knotty; laborious; lave; leaven; lift; lofty; luxurious; macerate; mean; monstrous; monumental; mountainous; mounting; operose; orthogonal; outrageous; overgrown; overmuch; overweening; palisade; penetrate; percolate; permeate; perpendicular; pervade; plumb; plunging; precipice; precipitous; premium; prominent; raise; rapid; refine; render; rich; rigorous; rinse; rise; rough; rugged; saturate; scar; scarp; season; seethe; severe; sharp; sheer; sky; soak; soaring; sodden; sop; souse; spiny; squeeze; steep; stiff; stratosphere; sublime; suffuse; sumptuous; superlative; supernal; tall; temper; thorny; ticklish; tincture; tinge; toilsome; top; topless; topping; tough; towering; transfuse; tricky; unbridled; unconscionable; undue; unreasonable; unrestrained; uphill; uplifted; uprise; vertical; wall; wash; wicked; wring; tough; towering; transfuse; tricky; unbridled; unconscionable; undue; unreasonable; unrestrained; uphill; uplifted; uprise; vertical; wall; wash; wicked; wring; zenith


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    steep ascent; steep bank; steep descent; steep hill; steep slope; steep them; steeple chase