Past tense of slope
regular verb
The past tense of slope is sloped. The past participle is also sloped.
Forms of slope
| Base form (V1) | slope /sloʊp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sloped |
| Past participle (V3) | sloped |
| Present participle | sloping /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | slopes |
Sloped in a sentence
- If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
- “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise.2020 October 29, Richard Goldstein, “Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times. From the entry touchdown
- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry slow
- She had a perfect nose, narrow and faintly sloped at the end to give it character.2012, Bronwyn Scott, How to Disgrace a Lady, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry boning
Meaning of slope
- noun A surface that either inclines or declines in a regular manner from the perspective of an observer.
- noun An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- noun The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
Questions about the past tense of slope
- What is the past tense of slope?
- The past tense of slope is sloped.
- What is the past participle of slope?
- The past participle of slope is sloped.
- Is slope a regular or irregular verb?
- Slope is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slope (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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