steepen

In the days leading up to the war, my learning curve steepened.

She shifted back to second as the grade steepened again.

Not only did the cavern turn to the right, it steepened.

After lunch, the path steepened and the landscape began to change.

It was a long hike, up the gradually steepening way.

The slopes around them closed in, and the trail steepened.

The floor was steepening, as if it had been the bed of a torrent.

The pitch of the road steepened, and his legs started to burn.

The slope steepened as the top of the hill was approached.

As she followed the dirt road back to the house, the climb steepened.

The competition was steepened because the inside position along the rail sounds better than it is.

Students used to be told that it was dangerous to steepen the climb below 100 feet.

They made ten kilometers over gradually steepening ground in just under eight hours.

Then it began a gradual slide that steepened after 1948 and hit bottom in 1952.

The slope steepened and his muscles began to burn with effort.

He put on more speed by steepening the angle of his glide.

It curved slowly toward what he felt was south and the slope steepened.

If the ground isn't reached soon and this slope steepens, we've had it.

A region at the top of a cliff or rock face that steepens dramatically.

At best, steepening the dive might save one or two ships that would otherwise be lost.

This steepens at the bottom and involves some moderately difficult scrambling.

Lambert learned from them both, steepened his angle, and left everything a fraction later.

The passage steepened and the air took on a terrible frigidity.

But it also prompted him to drop out of school, steepening his climb off the streets.

That, in turn, could send long bond yields higher, steepening the curve.