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Examples of sloped

sloped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The most visible example of this is when steeply sloped land is cleared for agricultural use, making it vulnerable to extreme erosion and gully formation.
Ten households were ineligible because they did not have sloped plots suitable for the program.
A landfarm cell with sloped bottom, a sump basin, and a circulation pump accommodates leachate collection for nutrient amendment and water distribution.
Failures in rangebased classification were observed when sand was steeply sloped to form ridges and dunes.
The roof of the shop was gabled, but the roofs of the living quarters, storehouses and workshops etc. sloped downwards to the inner courtyard.
Through walking simulations and experiments on an uneven terrain, such as stairs and sloped terrain, the effectiveness of the control method is verified.
The activities of preparing fields, planting and managing the potato crop, and harvesting, lead to soil being displaced down the steeply sloped hillsides (tillage erosion).
The project occupies roughly one half of a triangular site and is both set back from, and emergent of, the sloped forecourt.
Because the soffit beneath the balcony is sloped, the contrast between wall and soffit is softened.
The study plot was near the end of an east-west ridge (1100 m asl) and sloped at about 8° with a north-west aspect.
Figure 12 shows a sixlegged robot being placed in a virtual environment that consists of a door frame and a sloped surface.
Neighboring areas exhibit sloped sand dunes and sandy flats mixed with beach grass.
Open plan offices were envisaged for clerical work, and north-facing elevations were sloped to provide as much light as possible.
And it always had a sloped wall - a continuation of one material from the roof.
Not surprisingly, higher sloped land, where erosion is expected to be greatest was positively associated with terrace adoption.
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