How To Use steep-sided In A Sentence
- As the morning gives way to afternoon, the anemic, late-winter sun burns through, lifting the heavy mist and exposing the dramatic steep-sided canyon. A Nation Passing On the Port
- Potholing, creation of a steep-sided bowlshaped cavity, may be caused by loss of surfacing, basecourse erosion, advanced cracking under traffic or severe weather, or water-induced blowouts.
- Far below, the forest rose on either side of the river gorge, but to reach that we would have to descend a winding path alongside a steep-sided valley cut by a stream that slithered under fallen trunks. Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland
- The crater was about two miles across, almost perfectly circular, with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim.
- Along the coast, people have crammed themselves into steep-sided stacks of apartments in the clamour for the slightest glimpse of the sea.
- Birch, alder, ash and hazel line the path, and the Grotaig Burn forms a steep-sided gorge for part of the way, the sides of which are covered with ferns and woodrush.
- ‘I've got to go see them,’ Gary says, and glissades down a steep-sided bowl to the water.
- The valley is quite narrow and steep-sided, so you do not see out, but it's full of interest.
- The High Coast of Ǻngermanland is the only hilly coastline in east Sweden, a region of steep-sided flat-topped forested hills and cliffy coasts with particularly interesting geology and geomorphology. Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
- Today the steep-sided pit is a refuge for chalk grassland plants and animals once frequent on the now arable-ised fields of the south Cambridgeshire chalk belt. Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire
