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steepen sentence examples

  • Steepening of the adjacent inter-tidal slope.
  • Steepening slope slipping and falling became more frequent.
  • Steepens when more thought-provoking climbing leads to a belay on a grass ledge.
  • Steepens again for what's known as the little tower.
  • The gradient steepened in the last few hundred yards and in addition there was a very sharp right hand curve.
  • Steepen considerably on the climb to a point beneath the highest line of cliffs, seen under the eastern peak.
  • Steepening wall with the aid of two pegs.
  • This consists of a 1000m ice face which gradually steepens to 70 degrees.
  • Steepening valley to bedding.
  • The ridge above this point starts easily and then steepens below the south summit.
  • Steepening slab with a delicate move across a diagonal crack to gain the center of a diagonal flake line.
  • Steepened abruptly and the exposure overlooking crowberry gully increased dramatically.
  • Steepen the approach.
  • Steepens dramatically.

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