"The Nile" is an appropriate name for Damita Jo Nicholson's necklace, which seems to flow slowly and steadily downward in a broad V shape.

Indeed, as the unemployment rate inched steadily downward to less than 5.5 percent (it is now 5.4 percent), neither labor costs nor the inflation rate changed much.

His hand slipped between the opening of her shirt and moved steadily downward until he cupped her breast beneath the chemise.

Cutting the deficit by $30 billion would keep reductions headed steadily downward relative to the size of the overall economy.

They slipped steadily downward until they hung drunkenly on the lower bar at a forty-five degree angle to the ground.

The result was a mob-infested union that raped its constituents and spiraled steadily downward in public esteem.

Money had reached a high of 1,391 pages of advertising in 1999, but fell steadily downward to 919 pages in 2002, according to Publishers Information Bureau.

The present set of difficulties seem to be feeding on each other to create a steadily downward spiraling situation.

Americans continue dying in Iraq, but their mission creeps steadily downward.

The atmosphere and ocean are continuously stratified: potential density generally increases steadily downward.