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[ UK /da‍ɪˈæɡənə‍li/ ]
[ US /daɪˈæɡənəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a diagonal manner
    she lives diagonally across the street from us

How To Use diagonally In A Sentence

  • He sped along Bellhouse Road and crossed a mini roundabout diagonally, to the alarm of many pedestrians and motorists.
  • Do it diagonally in both directions, to make diamond shapes.
  • Obliquus abdominis - commonly known as the obliques, this muscle runs diagonally along the side of the mid-section from the lower ribcage to the pubic area.
  • She turned around and smiled at Keith who was, as usual, seated diagonally behind her.
  • And a seemingly never-ending procession of leafcutter ants tack diagonally across the next spot in the trail on a pheromone-driven mission to and from their monolithic anthills.
  • To the north are the Northamptonshire uplands, the most north-easterly extension of the broad band of limestone that runs diagonally across England and is best exposed as the Cotswold hills.
  • Sitting diagonally opposite was a mother and a daughter. Roughly at the age of seven, with a turn-up nose, the cute girl was enjoying an ice-cream on her own.
  • Its orientation, however, was curious, running diagonally across the ditch extension towards a position off-centre of the mound.
  • Magistrate from his subordinates, and this fence, being made of long splinters of wood placed diagonally, was called _cancellus_, from its likeness to network, the regular Latin word for a net being casses, and the diminutive cancellus [177]. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • Nail a temporary brace diagonally across the unit to keep it square and stable.
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