How to Use steepen in a Sentence

steepen

verb

• A large glacier steepened the side of the mountain.
• The path steepened as we approached the summit.
• The losses have steepened of late: The Bloomberg dollar index is in the midst of a seven-week skid.
  — Sarah McGregor, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• So why did the market ignore the BOE’s warnings, causing the yield curve to flatten rather than steepen?
  — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2017
• This can suppress the price of the front-month and raise the cost of the second -- steepening the front end of the curve into an upward slope known as a contango.
  — Dani Burger, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
• Church steepened the mountain’s profile, as the waves of black clouds threaten to obscure the blazing orb, struggling to begin a new day.
  — John Wilmerding, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• That steepened the bank’s path to an eventual recovery, said Mr. Schorr.
  — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• In one case, a trader executed large futures blocks in a bet the curve from seven to 30 years would steepen.
  — Brian Chappatta, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• The grade steepens past the Jacob Crosscut Trail and craggy rock formations rise.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
• The next segment makes a steady, lung-squeezing climb gaining 700 feet in a series of tight switchbacks that steepen as you near a high saddle.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
• If investors thought the Fed was behind the curve, the Treasury yield curve would normally steepen, with long-term yields rising by more than short-term rates.
  — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• The yield on America’s current benchmark 30-year bond spiked to its highs of the day and the curve steepened following the Treasury announcement.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• So, again, this is where, as global growth takes off and other things happen, hopefully the yield curve will start to unflatten, right, to steepen.
  — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• The decline steepened after the terrorist attack in Barcelona.
  — Steve Lohr and Landon Thomas Jr., New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• The mountain steepens dramatically, to more than 50 degrees; the face widens and grows enormous.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• New colors can be generated, the light can focus, or a light pulse might steepen and becomes even shorter and more intense.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 31 July 2017
• The AFC East’s defensive-minded head coaches will steepen his learning curve.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2021
• The implications of the steepening sea-level rise on high-tide flooding are already apparent on the ground.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
• Hence the need to steepen the gradient of quality vaccines to overcome this resistance.
  — Muhammad H. Zaman, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021
• This will encourage the yield curve to continue to bear steepen, with long-end yields rising faster than short maturities.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2019
• Yield curves were inverted for several months in 2007, then reverted and began to steepen in the fall before the recession hit.
  — Sven Henrich For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 19 Sep. 2019
• And just to steepen the learning curve, Curry's second go-around for a bachelors in nursing was entirely online.
  — Krista Soriano, Esquire, 26 Feb. 2018
• In the most severe case, the banks were told to assume U.S. unemployment more than doubled to 10% while the yield curve in Treasuries dramatically steepened.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• Giving riders the ability to steepen or slacken a bike’s head angle by a meaningful amount, and to raise and lower the bottom bracket height is a great feature.
  — Mike Kazimer, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2022
• While some observers attributed the move to investor expectations for even deeper cuts from OPEC, others said the drop steepened as algorithms hopped on the trend.
  — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• If that is the case, the flattening yield curve, where inversion is seen as a harbinger of recession, may be sending a false signal, and rising Japanese yields could steepen the U.S. curve.
  — Richard Barley, WSJ, 23 July 2018
• But, a familiar bugaboo probably will steepen San Diego’s odds.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• Mounting defaults and steepening yields have raised doubts about the $12 trillion market’s health, just as China’s economy shows signs of faltering.
  — Andrew Peaple, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• In its core market of Hong Kong, which accounted for 31 percent of revenue last year, competition is steepening.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2019
• The Treasury yield curve steepened initially on the report that the administration is revisiting the idea of selling ultra long-term debt.
  — Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024