steep

Too shallow or too steep, and you’re creating extra problems.

The steeper the angle of the failure plane, the more the vertical force contributes to shear stress and the less it adds to the shear strength.

As the population recovered, there was a steep increase in the population size initially.

You don’t want roads that are too steep, mainly because it would be hard for trucks to go up and down.

If they start slow, with a not-so-steep slope, they end okay-ish.

The curve starts off with a slight increase… and then gets really steep: that's called exponential growth.

The angle of this slope is called the angle of repose which is the steepest angle at which a soil can naturally rest.

The question of how pandemics end, depends on how they start; if they start fast with a steep slope, they end badly.

An unemployed Army veteran in Arizona was brought to tears shortly into a low crawl up a steep gravel driveway, admitting to the group that he had erectile dysfunction.

With every additional meter of water, light fades drastically, which means there are basically no more plants, and the seemingly steep continental slope begins to remind us of the surface of the Moon.

This is another one which has a long prompt about a camera following behind a white vintage SUV with a black roof rack as it's speeds up a steep dirt road.