cater-cornered

How To Use cater-cornered In A Sentence

• Across the table from him, cater-cornered, at Mr. Morse's right, sat Judge Blount, a local superior court judge. Chapter 37
• It was a tiny, lively rivulet that came out of the woods about half a mile away from the hotel, and ran down cater-cornered through a sloping meadow, crossing the road under a flat bridge of boards, just beyond the root-beer shop at the lower end of the village. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
• He'd extend his left hand, and we would grope a bit, obliquely, cater-cornered, as if we were about to begin a minuet. Learning To Love Dole
• Diver with an expression of devastating irony, the effect being occasionally interrupted by his attempts to engage Dick in a cater-cornered conversation across the table. Tender is the Night
• Jim did these up in the square of gingham, and he tied it across cater-cornered twice, in double knots, and showed Pony how he could put his hand through and carry it just as easy. The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story
• Today, the young couple—22 and 20 when painted—hang cater-cornered on two walls of a high-ceilinged salon, otherwise empty except for a small Van Dyck picture of the head of Christ. Notice of Arrival
• Upwards of 100 policemen flooded the area and eventually evacuated the two huge buildings about a block away and cater-cornered to my own. Why I Write
• I was hurty from head to toe and back again, and crosswise and cater-cornered. Speaking of Operations