How To Use Steepen In A Sentence
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Along the Leathad Riabhach gully, the Ben More Thrust steepens into a subvertical fault with gneiss to the NE and quartzite to the SW.
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As the slope steepens, warm, moist air overrunning the cold air is cut off and the precipitation coverage begins to rapidly decrease.
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After the first hour or so of gentle ascent through a lava flow the climb steepens.
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When LASIK is performed for hyperopia, the corneal surface is gently steepened by the laser.
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I would tuck the rear wheel in a little closer and steepen the seat tube angle, for compactness and to distribute a little weight to the feet.
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The common theory is that when yield spreads widen, which is when the so-called yield curve steepens, it suggests investors are optimistic about the strength of the economy.
Yield Curve Signals Growth Ahead
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A fairly well-used path runs up alongside the Allt Coire an Dothaidh although higher up it becomes faint, and the final few hundred metres to the bealach steepen considerably.
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Shoreline edges can be steepened with a dragline to give the sides a 3: 1 slope and a minimum of shallow water.
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Then the road got worse, the shade diminished allowing the sun to beat down mercilessly, and the gradient steepened as the corkscrew twists became sharper and sharper.
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From the col, the ridge climbs and then levels out again into a tight area of mossy grass before it steepens appreciably into its final fling.
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Then below, beyond my feet, I saw the slope steepen, then disappear.
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The route to the summit of K2 follows steepening snow slopes towards a snow and ice couloir called "the Bottleneck".
Freddie Wilkinson: Avalanche Triggers Survival Situation on K2
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This surface is weakly convex and steepens rapidly forming a cone-like structure, or stem, which is approximately 60 Jim in diameter at the base of the cap and narrows slightly toward the stem base.
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As she reaches a point where the slope steepens slightly, she is airborne, joining the dozen parapentes and hang gliders that are already visible circling above the town.
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The steep fault along Leathad Riabhach and Glen Beag is a steepened lateral ramp of the Ben More Thrust and not an extensional structure, throwing doubt on the existence of ‘surge zones’ in Assynt.
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The mountain side has steepened
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Also they say cooler SSTs would “steepen the slope of the moist adiabat…,” but that, too, is a little funky.
LIA and MWP in Venezuela « Climate Audit
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In hyperopia, the laser indirectly steepens the central cornea by removing tissue from the periphery, thus increasing the cornea's focusing power.
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Shoreline edges can be steepened with a dragline to give the sides a 3: 1 slope and a minimum of shallow water.
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Thus, the demise of the stability pact can be expected to steepen the yield curve - which will tend to slow down the economy.
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For the adventurous, the slope steepens at the end of the wall, descending to 40m or more and the bottom of the old riverbed.
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The attacks started from the gun, and one group after another was brought back to the fold until the road steepened a bit around the 40 km mark.
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Cooler tropical SSTs would reduce the absolute humidity of the lower troposphere and steepen the slope of the moist adiabat above the condensation level.
LIA and MWP in Venezuela « Climate Audit
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The trail began to steepen near the top of the hill.
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Technically, continental shelves are defined as the region of ocean floor between the coast and the shelf-break, where the seafloor steepens into the continental slope and plunges toward the abyssal depths.
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In hyperopia, the laser indirectly steepens the central cornea by removing tissue from the periphery, thus increasing the cornea's focusing power.
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The path bears left and begins to steepen, following the wall which leads all the way to the summit of Lingmoor Fell.
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The Stratek tower rises a full hundred and twelve storeys above this city, a glass behemoth with a broad base that gradually steepens towards the top.
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Technically, continental shelves are defined as the region of ocean floor between the coast and the shelf-break, where the seafloor steepens into the continental slope and plunges toward the abyssal depths.
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The addition of snow and ice in the accumulation zone and its loss in the ablation zone cause the glacier's downslope or long profile to steepen, increasing the stress on the ice crystals within it (Fig.
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Then suddenly, beyond Linxia, the loess hills have gone, and our valley steepens into stone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The landslides have steepened the mountain sides
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Then the road got worse, the shade diminished allowing the sun to beat down mercilessly, and the gradient steepened as the corkscrew twists became sharper and sharper.
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In natural conditions, unrestrained beaches and mudflats tend to move inland under rising sea levels and thus avoid steepening.
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After about a half-mile or so, the grade steepens considerably and the meaning of the phrase "earn one's turns" becomes clear.
The Seattle Times
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The terrain steepens, climbing through a forest of conifers and aspens to Marker Hill.
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Thus, spreads could widen a lot, and the private debt yield curve should steepen on initiation of this strategy if it is deemed likely to work.
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So long as the music industry does exactly the opposite by branding all their customers as criminals bent on theft then I suspect the decline in sales will only steepen.
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Smart, surrealistic fairy tales steepen in Arabian Nights lore and the gnarled fables of Hans Christian Andersen.
October 2007
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This downward strike will steepen the angle of approach, producing solid contact and giving you the high wedge shot that lands softly.
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We read the paper by Kymionis et al with great interest, in which they report performance of corneal cross linking surgery by leaving the epithelium intact at the area of topographic steepening in two eyes with keratoconus and post-LASIK corneal ectasia, and localized low pachymetry (less than 400 microns) .1
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If the slab steepens as it rolls back then the deeper the slab is from the hinge line, the greater the horizontal component of extension.
