Slope in example sentence

They let themselves down on their backs, flattening their shoulders for fear of taking the skin off their foreheads, and they slipped so fast down the rocky slope, polished by all the rumps of the workers, that they were obliged from time to time to hold on to the woodwork, so that their backsides should not catch fire, as they said jokingly.

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Before I talk about that, I've written down at the bottom there the slope of this curve, this straight line.

It says that, if it were linear, the steepest slope, then doubling the size you would require double the amount of energy.

The slope of that is less than linear.

And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery slope to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about, and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time, or at least capable of doing it.

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