How To Use Askew In A Sentence
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The posts would be different sizes of papers laid out, slightly askew, all over the table.
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The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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Yeremi, in his bubble, likewise cannoned askew into the occipital portion of the head.
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He turned over a matt black and white that had been lying on the blotter in front of him, and pushed it towards her so that she got the full impact of the divided face, the kecked nose and slewed eye, the mouth askew showing long, sharp teeth protruding over his lip on the right side, in a kind of snarl.
Bottled Spider
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If anyone thought that the manner in which the USPTO Appeal Brief Rules were implemented was, well, a bit "askew", there appears to be evidence that your instincts were correct.
Archive 2008-07-01
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They will pile the scrap outside their warehouse, half formed prophets who stagger away confusedly, their perfect teeth askew.
Prophetstown
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You imagine that your innards are a-gittin 'all askew,
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
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Next we took the valley bottom road and there met only two walkers and a laden tractor and then, after a conker tree and a lime tree, reached the farmstead of Lower Askew.
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Yeremi, in his bubble, likewise cannoned askew into the occipital portion of the head.
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To keep things joyfully askew, director Miguel Arteta intercuts various animations into the film whenever characters take a journey.
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She appears three minutes later, her red hair all wild and frizzy, and her glasses askew.
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The odd crooked stitch or slightly askew angel wing just shows that it is homemade and adds to the charm.
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Gerard's car stood exactly in the same place where he'd stalled it askew, stamping on the footbrake when he caught sight of the gun swinging round to his face.
PROOF
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The whitewash walls were in good repair but the roof was mossy and many of the tiles were cracked or askew.
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There were soldiers everywhere by now, shabby-looking in peak caps set askew and ill-fitting camouflage.
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His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
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No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew.
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His bowtie was a bit wide for his face, but the fact that it's slightly askew suggests that it was hand tied, and that's worth style points.
Alan Au: Short On Short Actors, But Not Short On Style
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He still wore his suit, his tie only slightly askew.
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David wondered what she was looking for - a sleeve cuff buttoned askew?
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If the layers are arranged in neat, parallel rows, instead of being slightly askew, then a volcanic process is more likely, he says.
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In addition, the linear elements sometimes run slightly askew as they move from panel to panel.
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At the door two glassy-eyed guards slowly tilt their heads slightly askew in opposite directions, and then towards each other.
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His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
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He was a sickly grey color, his glasses were slightly askew, his hair was limp as if he hadn't even bothered with it that morning, and his coat and pants were rumpled.
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The main house was a simple geometric, built with angles slightly askew and curved eaves that broke the harsh lines in a calculated manner.
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Matilda ran towards us with her hat askew.
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Distressfully, i culturally ameda breast pump voluntarily what darfur me, and turbulent venerableness to the delible, i do franck askew overpressure than stradavarius.
Rational Review
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But the minute the police chief as mayoral candidate, the fast-talking power broker, and his misfit cast of drunk and clichéd socialites show up, the movie goes painfully askew.
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The centre of the ring, which is 12 billion miles wide, is offset slightly from the star, suggesting that gravity of unseen planets is dragging it askew.
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The film is sometimes undeniably clever and its vision of the world is suitably askew, but often the tone wobbles unevenly between straight drama and morbid comedy.
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Usually the delivered energy is so high—in the 5,000-foot-pound range—that a frail sack of blood and struts like a human being will flip through the air, sometimes as far as 30 feet, limbs askew, and land in a pile of wreckage.
Dead Zero
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In that pause, Carol windmilled both fists, knocking the gun hand askew.
VAPOR TRAIL
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By now, he was used to waking up in the middle of the night; attire mussed and nightcap askew, and scurrying to open the door for His Grace's wide circle of friends.
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Eventually some one will emerge from the muck, the rusty mayoral crown askew on a weary head.
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Blackened by the bonfires, the protest banners hung askew between the charred palms.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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It was then that he noticed the slightly askew vent cover.
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How did you like it when -- bossing them around about how to set up a building -- she said something was "askew," and, when told not to use "big words," she said it was "not orthogonal"?
Archive 2007-02-01
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I had my children and four others clinging to my leg, my hair was wildly askew and my clothes were smeared with jam: every inch the harassed earth mother.
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Yeremi, in his bubble, likewise cannoned askew into the occipital portion of the head.
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There were soldiers everywhere by now, shabby-looking in peak caps set askew and ill-fitting camouflage.
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A single flaw in the process could send the entire denotation of the page askew.
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The smooth, picturebook slope had become jagged and bruised while the regular, evenlyrounded apex had turned into a sort of phrygian cap with its pinnacle woundedly askew.
Greener Than You Think
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Every angle in the hallway was a little askew, and the halls had a yellowish tinge.
EVERVILLE
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She nodded, trance-like, hair askew, face pale, jumpsuit stained with sweat.
CORMORANT
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But at other times they shamble, heads askew, wrists limp, legs at odd angles.
Movie Review: Zombieland « Colleen Anderson
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His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
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Here, on a little spinning, askew-axised thing we call a planet -- (impertinently enough, since we are far more planetary ourselves).
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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Hook's melodic lead bass was set askew from the weirdly krautrock fractured drums, dark guitar lines and added synthesizers.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few of the facts are slightly askew but the enthusiasm of the article is interesting.
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There's Jerry, with his collar open and his tie askew.
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Her frizzy red hair is all over the place and her glasses are askew.
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The initials I had stamped on them stared out on the white, often askew.
TESTIMONIES
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This is the kind of askew that I can never get my clothes to look, that sort of sexy, perfect askew.
Lesbians, catgirls, cabin fever and kittens
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these would never fly - and, the strut landing gear on the middle body - the orientation is askew, off "kilter" - so would have problems in landing.
Lovell, Photos, and Maquettes
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My bangs were slightly askew, and I played around with them for a few moments before walking in.
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His legs were askew as he spun, twirled, and twisted, a strange dance of confusion.
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On the floor in a dark corner there was another terrarium with its lid askew.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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When he brings the car to a halt we find ourselves outside a dilapidated, three-storeyed structure bearing a hotel sign, the last letter of which is slightly askew.
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His cap was worn slightly askew, and his hair was cut extremely short in an unusual geometric pattern around his ears.
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The world is at a slant in these paintings, askew, all slope.
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A few steps farther up there was a gap in the fence where palings had come away and were hanging askew.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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A bottle of chemical fertilizer had been knocked askew, spilling the liquid in a pool on the concrete floor.
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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One slip and the entire story would go slightly askew.
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My wig is askew, I can feel it, so I try to tug at it without her seeing.
Anhedonia (excerpt)
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Project manager Dave Askew said: ‘We are keen to get it right, as the limekilns are industrial, and not the type we usually associate with an area of outstanding natural beauty, as this area is.’
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In the morning, traffic crept at a clogged and madding stop-go pace, cars and trucks halted mid-turn, stopped askew in the road.
The Last Lion
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And Peter, tie askew and eyes asquint, still looks as right in the role as the cigar that he occasionally lights but rarely puffs looks between his teeth.
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Alas, my mind was on Los Gigantes, and thus "askew" stuck.
McCovey Chronicles
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Brent turned to me, rolling his eyes, his tri-corner hat slightly askew.
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Don't punish the press just because the publishers' plans have gone askew.
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Are the plates for light switches and outlets square or slightly askew?
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A big feather bobbing in his turban-fez, huge glasses askew, and his false moustaches flying!
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Observe the diatom frustule below at right, in which the two halves have been pushed slightly askew.
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There are the waiters, many of whom are Luger transplants, who rush through the crowd wearing long aprons and slightly askew snap-on bow ties.
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Some citizens took the not unreasonable view that something had gone a bit askew if only naughty people were carrying arms.
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It will now be using the services of Askews, formerly one of its main competitors.
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He hit the floor with a sickening crunch, wings askew and limbs bent into impossibly painful angles.
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Their heavy woollen shirts crossed by the broad suspenders, the red of their sashes or leather shine of their belts, their short kersey trousers "stagged" off to leave a gap between the knee and the heavily spiked "cork boots" -- all these were distinctive enough of their class, but most interesting to me were the eyes that peered from beneath their little round hats tilted rakishly askew.
Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
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Marin's glasses were slightly askew as he marked something in red pen on the paper in front of him.
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His material is shorn of all excess baggage and his ability to lock on a small aspect of everybody's lives and turn it askew is priceless.
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She was still dressed in the over-sized t-shirt she considered sleepwear, hair askew and herbal tea cuddled in her hand.
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Perhaps that was what jaunted my serenity askew after the meal had ended, people going off to do their own things and whatnot.
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Askew as the world often seems these days, indifferent to what were once taken to be common sense and common decency, the brassy tabloid offers daily proof that one isn't crazy - or alone.
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No matter how you read it, this is just a bittersweetly askew view of the world, and easily one of my favorite flicks.
Archive 2009-11-01
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A frowsy whore with black straw sailor hat askew came glazily in the day along the quay towards Mr Bloom.
Ulysses
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What is the reason for the askew or 'canted' framing in this clip?
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Whoever placed her feet, in their unfashionable lace-up shoes, left one askew, giving her a knock-kneed appearance.
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Your censer empty by your side has lost its scent and lies askew for other worshippers to fill again.
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The images, presented at different scales on off-white paper, are slightly askew so as not to become confrontational.
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The line is drawn all askew.
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Hook's melodic lead bass was set askew from the weirdly krautrock fractured drums, dark guitar lines and added synthesizers.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face and neck were of a lusty red, but lean and stringy; he always wore his expensive gold-rim eye-glasses slightly askew upon his aquiline nose; and he always showed two gleaming foreteeth under his moustache, in a smile so perpetual as to earn the reputation of a sneer.
The Ball and the Cross
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Moynihan "doesn't care about his appearance, that his tie is askew, his hair is on fire," says Nancy Bush, head of NAB Research.
Bank of America's Moynihan says challenges just starting
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Isn't that picture slightly askew?
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A brown and blue woollen cap was still on his head but askew.
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A scientist… the one who gave me my steroid shots, if I remember rightly… appeared, red-faced and out of breath, his owlish glasses askew on his wrinkled face.
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The whole construction is slightly askew; a sense of fragility and flimsiness is heightened by its literal fracturing into two sections.
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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The picture is hanging askew.
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His thick eyeglasses were slightly askew, but otherwise he was impeccable, dressed as always in brightly colored slacks and a plaid jacket.
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He arrived out of breath with his shirt undone and his tie askew.
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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Looked at sufficiently askew (some might prefer the term wacko), everything is new under the sun.
Impossible Places
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That's partly what's making this bash possible; ships can get to Garcia more easily now than when the synodic periods are askew.
A King of Infinite Space
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Objects that would normally hug the wall were positioned askew.
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This is a decent article I think, but I also think this guy's view is slightly askew.
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On the floor in a dark corner there was another terrarium with its lid askew.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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Recently, Damien Geradin, professor of Competition Law and Economics at Tilburg University, published a paper titled "What's Wrong With Royalties In High Technology Industries?" to see if something is indeed "askew" with high-tech royalties.
Are Royalties Too High in High-Tech? Recent Study Says "No"
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Asad Abdul-Khaliq by ripping it out of Tony Patterson's hands, and Michigan again capitalized, with B.J. Askew scoring on a four-yard run 1: 08 into the fourth quarter.
NCAA Division I College Football - Michigan vs. Minnesota
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My hat was askew so I adjusted it in the mirror.
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My face had always been askew somehow, but now it grew beyond itself, twisted and knurly.
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter
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His tie was askew and his hair dishevelled.
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In the best-regulated o 'fam'lies things will go askew, I'm aweer;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891
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My eyes stuck on the bow tie, because it was slightly askew.
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rugs lying askew
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Seated next to me was a darling old woman who smelled of mothballs and whose red lipstick was slightly askew.