Sentences with steep
steep
S s - San Francisco is built on 40 hills and some are very steep.
- Consumers are rebelling at steep price increases.
- Steep1 suggests such sharpness of rise or slope as to make ascent or descent very difficult [a steep hill]; abrupt implies a sharper degree of inclination in a surface breaking off suddenly from the level [an abrupt bank at the river's edge]; precipitous suggests the abrupt and headlong drop of a precipice [a precipitous height]; sheer1 applies to that which is perpendicular, or almost so, and unbroken throughout its length [cliffs falling sheer to the sea]
- The annual premium can be a little steep, but will be well worth it if your dog is injured.
- It's a drink made by steeping pineapple rind in water. [VERB noun]
- The steep
- A steep task
- steeped in ideology
- A steep incline
- steep demands, a steep price
- A rather steep statement
- steeped in folklore
- Those prices are too steep for me.
- To steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
- An incident steeped in mystery.