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How to pronounce downhill in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms declivitous, downward-sloping
Type Words
Type of ski race, skiing race
Type Words
Type of declivity, descent, declension, fall, downslope, declination, decline

Examples of downhill

downhill
So what are average people to do as they watch their investments slide downhill?
From the news10now.com
It's not every day a songwriter tells you that it's been downhill since 9,500BC.
From the guardian.co.uk
At halftime, I told our coaches I felt like a car going downhill without brakes.
From the sacbee.com
It opens with a stormy-night samurai sword fight and hurtles downhill afterward.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In those days the climb was not regarded as a tedious prelude to a downhill run.
From the theatlantic.com
He was fifth in the downhill and ended 20th overall after a cautious slalom run.
From the usatoday.com
They point out the downhill portion of the Capital Crescent Trail heading south.
From the washingtonpost.com
He's always running downhill, trying to get the right cuts, blowing up the hole.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Instead of running side to side, the Bulldogs began running vertically downhill.
From the fresnobee.com
More examples
  • Declivitous: sloping down rather steeply
  • The downward slope of a hill
  • Toward a lower or inferior state; "your performance has been going downhill for a long time now"
  • A ski race down a trail
  • Toward the bottom of a hill; "running downhill, he gained a lot of speed"
  • A downhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships.
  • Downhill Strand (better known as Benone Strand) is a beach in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, with the A2 and the Derry to Coleraine railway line next to it.
  • Downhill (released in the U.S. as When Boys Leave Home) is a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the play Down Hill. It is Hitchcock's fifth film as director.
  • The following is a list of episodes for the Disney Channel series Kim Possible.