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.
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.
Trotters work diagonally, that is, they'll lift a front leg and a back leg at the same time, but on opposite sides of the body.
Vaulting the stile, he headed diagonally across the paddock.
A triangle was chipped from one of its corners and a crack extended diagonally across its surface.
Bearded passages of vegetation cling to steep rock, and the strong Yangtze current spills diagonally along the bottom of the frame.
To the right of that complex a rough street leads diagonally leftward from the centre of the picture out of sight.
When I started staying in hotels I assumed that diagonally sliced toast was some kind of catering affectation.
They'd also left two gouges running diagonally across the cheekbone down to the jaw.
In Bessy's Cove we can see bricked-up caves, steep steps leading down to a tiny pebble beach, and a slipway running diagonally up the further side of the cove. Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall
Genuine bobbinet tulle is constructed by warp and weft yarns in which the weft yarn is looped diagonally around the vertical warp yarn to form a hexagonal mesh which is regular and clearly defined.
The back of his apartment on West Eighty-ninth Street was diagonally across from the garden behind her parents' brownstone on West Eighty-eighth Street.
Spotlights move in a track that's mounted diagonally, following the angle of the stairs overhead.
American roads also frustrated the traveller seeking to move diagonally rather than according to the four cardinal points of the compass.
An oversized text with a puce cover, Blast's title was emblazoned diagonally across the cover in three-inch tall, bold, black type.
she lives diagonally across the street from us
The square sails themselves are controlled by drawlines called clew-garnets running up from the lower corners, leechlines running in diagonally from the middle of the outside edges, buntlines running up from the foot, and spilling lines, to spill the wind in heavy {107} weather. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
Sparkle's hull was built of two laminates of diagonally laid red cedar on an inner core of longitudinal Douglas fir.
The size is due to a screen which measures a massive four inches diagonally.
Hathorne feebly lifted one of the jade pieces and moved it diagonally to the edge of the board.
In one of these alternate universes, I was run down at Southdale on Monday afternoon by two juvies hotrodding diagonally through the middle of a parking lot.
Further forward, the aft hold is broken plates, then the amidships deckhouse and winch-gear lies intact and upside-down, and the goalpost mast has fallen diagonally across the wreck.
He appeared in the final Old Vic season (before the new National theatre was ensconced there in 1963), forging a friendship with the actor Vernon Dobtcheff, who remembers "an astringent mentor, an elegant guru and a larky friend" – one who would sail diagonally through the fierce traffic on the Waterloo Road with a cry of: "They wouldn't dare: they couldn't face the litigation. David William obituary
Its orientation, however, was curious, running diagonally across the ditch extension towards a position off-centre of the mound.
Walk diagonally across the field to the far corner and then turn left.
In Celebration, a narrow band of hot pink, blue and white, trimmed in red, diagonally traverses the glowing disk.
Bake just until the tops feel firm and are lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 22 minutes (If you put chocolate on yours, insert the toothpick from the side diagonally toward the center). Mr. Goodbar Cupcakes
After passing over the brow of a small hill leave the track and bear diagonally right across a field along a path indicated by a waymarker, this leads to a wooden footbridge on the far side of the large Field.
Also two diagonally-projecting arms at the rear are fixed to a rear transverse rail.
The seats are folded down, and if I lie diagonally, I can almost stretch out fully.
Charges set diagonally on the field of a Shield, in the position in which a bend would occupy, are said to be “_in bend_” and are arranged in the same manner: but it would be quite possible to have three or more charges each disposed bendwise; but yet, nevertheless, when taken together occupying the position of a fesse and therefore described also as in fesse. The Handbook to English Heraldry
The vault in the upper basilica partially collapsed bringing two diagonally opposite quadrants in the east end and nave of the main vault crashing 22 metres to the floor, where they broke into thousands of pieces.
These are arranged in a double cruciform, four apartments radiating from each staircase, which ingeniously receives borrowed daylight from two diagonally opposite corners, the other two corners containing service lifts.
Push the grout diagonally across the tile with the float tilted at a 45-degree angle.
Taylor's set employs a ballet bar set diagonally upstage from down stage right.
From it, two diagonally projecting arms at the front connect to side rails and support the rear of the engine.
If one partner is particularly tall, she says, they may often end up sleeping diagonally - leaving the smaller partner squashed into a corner of the bed.
Diagonal cutters have two cutting edges set diagonally from the joint or handle.
After blow-drying the hair, Bailey diagonally zigzag-parted the front half into sections.
It's huge and I can sleep diagonally, lengthwise or widthwise in it, and not hang off the bed.
My bedspread and pillows were all dark green and had two black stripes going diagonally across them.
Diouf takes the ball into the box diagonally after some patient United build-up play, but strikes the ball with all the misplaced aggression of an angry teen and it's a complete airshot. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Placed diagonally across the arrangement were the words ‘Latest Edition’ in purple immortelles, surrounded by white carnations.
Push a skewer through the thigh and across diagonally to the opposite wing. Times, Sunday Times
After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight.
On calmer mornings, walking the beach and casting diagonally across the surf line can produce a mixed bag of trout, reds, jacks, snook and mackerel.
After everything is nailed together, check the wall for squareness first by measuring across diagonally from one corner to the other, then measuring the opposite diagonal.
Christopher Acebo's unfancy unit set is a shallow, diagonally canted playing space in which the complex lighting of Christopher Akerlind creates the illusion of unexpected depth. Hamlet the Hipster
Right at the start of my experiments upon animals it had occurred to me, as to other investigators, that one could penetrate diagonally through the right auricle from the upper into the lower vena cava. Werner Forssmann - Nobel Lecture
Moving on six articulated legs, the harvester advances forward and backward, sideways and diagonally.
Mrs Rodgers, and her late husband Jimmy, lived in 41 Rodney Drive, diagonally across from the two houses where the police excavated ground floors and back gardens.
The rural exodus left the central massifs of France deserted, and depopulated a band drawn diagonally across the country from the north-east to the south-west.
The single large figure sprawls diagonally across the canvas in dark, moody browns and blues.
Lastly, a cleanly delineated arrow shows the way, forcefully directing the view diagonally across the picture surface in a delicate balance between lyricism and hard-edged abstraction.
Their families were said to have been watching the disaster unfold live on television, as footage showed a bright light followed by plumes of white smoke plumes streaking diagonally across the sky.
After some deliberation, he moved his queen diagonally across the board, capturing Adam's remaining knight.
Apparently, the most successful individuals working in adland are both linear and lateral thinkers - they think diagonally. Times, Sunday Times
In 2000 British Airways unveiled a new business class with some aft-facing seats, and in 2003 Virgin Atlantic opted for a "herringbone" pattern, with seats positioned diagonally (passengers 'feet point toward aisles). Making Airline Travel Feel Less Like Torture
The path cuts the meadow diagonally.
Fingers pointing diagonally forward and laterally, sprawling forelimbs, plantigrade feet. Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1
Remove from the heat and allow to stand for 5 minutes, then cut diagonally into 5mm slices.
The superficial layers consist of the following: (a) Fibers which spring from the tendon of the conus arteriosus and sweep downward and toward the left across the anterior longitudinal sulcus and around the apex of the heart, where they pass upward and inward to terminate in the papillary muscles of the left ventricle; those arising from the upper half of the tendon of the conus arteriosus pass to the anterior papillary muscle, those from the lower half to the posterior papillary muscle and the papillary muscles of the septum. (b) Fibers which arise from the right atrioventricular ring and run diagonally across the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle and around its right border on to its costosternal surface, where they dip beneath the fibers just described, and, crossing the anterior longitudinal sulcus, wind around the apex of the heart and end in the posterior papillary muscle of the left ventricle. (c) Fibers which spring from the left atrioventricular ring, and, crossing the posterior longitudinal sulcus, pass successively into the right ventricle and end in its papillary muscles. V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart
I hate maneuvering around people with their carts parked diagonally across an aisle.
Some trees were standing diagonally, with their entangled roots exposed on the precipitous rocky cliffs.
After passing over the brow of a small hill leave the track and bear diagonally right across a field along a path indicated by a waymarker; this leads to a wooden footbridge on the far side of the large field.
With figure 4.2, however, the cycle is seen as going diagonally across the matrix rather than running along one axis.
The screen measures 12.1 inches diagonally which is 2 or 3 inches bigger than most netbook screens. OSNN News
The easel is set diagonally to the right of the stool, just as the artist has his easel in Allegory of Painting.
Because of the newly discovered way of taking the thread diagonally, the textile fell pliantly.
David moved his queen left diagonally two spaces.
They're only now getting used to the idea that Mr. Lincecum just might have figured out how to keep an arm healthy slinging a mid-90s fastball, despite his small body, shoulder-length hair and a throwing motion that resembles a Slinky unfurling diagonally. The Year of the Ace
The touch screen is really stunning, measuring 3 inches diagonally, which is a hair larger than the 2. 81-inch display on the Voyager. Undefined
The initial approach starts right of centre and works diagonally left through the rock garden.
They contain asparagus sliced diagonally and lightly fried in olive oil; dark champignons (I sliced them after frying for artistic value – I would prefer shiitake I think, but they are hard to come by here), and zucchini slices. The were rabbits like to play with their food. « Were rabbits
As it did he found himself looking diagonally down rows of neatly hilled tomato plants.
Use the tines of a fork to make little holes in each marked-out biscuit: I press down about three times, diagonally, on each finger.
Several diagonal dominant properties and ∞ - norm inequalities for Kronecker product of diagonally dominant matrices are given.
The motion that caught his attention was the sudden stiffening of the antennae as he spoke, the two plumelike organs expanding sideways and pointing diagonally forward, as though to bring his head between their tips. Natives of Space
Given that the black king, in chess, is sometimes allowed to move diagonally by one square, it follows that there are chess pieces that are sometimes allowed to move diagonally by one square.
A bishop can only move diagonally, and thus, can only get into a space that is the same color as the square it started on.
A segment of the pole is visible at the bottom of the cap, and the end of the pole extends diagonally from the lower neck nearly to the edge of the coin. Liberty Cap Half Cent, Head Facing Right, Small Head, 1795-1797 : Coin Guide
Feather muscles are oriented diagonally to the longitudinal and transverse body axes.
In a spoutless container, the blade extends from the top lip horizontally inside the container for up to two inches, then diagonally down to the inside of the container.
There are Banamex, in both Chapala and ajijic (right on the Southwest corner) of the Plaza, diagonally from the policia station .. Ajijic Banks
Slice log diagonally into 1/2-inch slices, placing them slices upright on baking sheet. A Tale of Two Cookies
Cut leaves and stalks diagonally or crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices; separate leaves from stalks.
A dark figure crossed the compound diagonally from the beach gate, where whoever it was had been watching the vessel. Chapter 15
Each electrode had a diameter between 6 and 12 pm laterally and was beveled diagonally to facilitate insertion into the tissue.
Further forward, the aft hold is broken plates, then the amidships deckhouse and winch-gear lies intact and upside-down, and the goalpost mast has fallen diagonally across the wreck.
The path goes diagonally across the field.
Trim spring onions and slice diagonally.
Their opponent stands diagonally opposite, ready to receive the ball.
Stripes can run lengthwise, crosswise or diagonally.
The race looped from Monaco, across the Mediterranean rim into Spain, up the Pyrenees, diagonally across central and northeastern France to the Alps, and then down to Saturday's race climax on the dreaded Mont Ventoux in southeast France before the Paris finish. Part Deux: Contador cruises to second Tour de France title
Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face.
Secure each additional board to the furring strips by nailing diagonally through the top edge of the tongue.
Slide diagonally forwards, catching the opponent's front kick with your rear guard hand.
I have stated that there was a reef to leeward: it should rather be called a shoal, since it was a sort of muddy sand-bank formed by the current of the river, and running diagonally into the sea for a long distance -- a sort of low peninsula. Ran Away to Sea
Having satisfied their curiosity they disappeared over the hills diagonally from the river down stream. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Charges set diagonally on the field of a Shield, in the position in which a bend would occupy, are said to be “_in bend_” and are arranged in the same manner: but it would be quite possible to have three or more charges each disposed bendwise; but yet, nevertheless, when taken together occupying the position of a fesse and therefore described also as in fesse. The Handbook to English Heraldry
He moved diagonally on the tennis court like a ballet dancer might on the stage.
It starts in the upper right corner of a page and runs diagonally to the lower left.
The car careered out diagonally across the lane, heading straight for the wall on the other side.
Begin your powder turn and then instead of hitting your edges hard to carve a turn, stand up on two feet and let your skis slide or skid diagonally across the fall line.
Bring it diagonally across the forelock, where it will become the first ‘center’ strand.
Using a sharp knife, I slice each one diagonally, from just below the handle to the opposite corner of the base.
It's huge and I can sleep diagonally, lengthwise or widthwise in it, and not hang off the bed.
One of Lewis's finely penned pages, transected diagonally by a beautiful sketch of a fish, is presented as evidence that he did. Spiral-Bound and Spellbound
It's easiest to mount the retail heat sink by attaching the tabs in the diagonally opposed corners.
Split all four corners of each square by cutting diagonally from the tip of the corner to about halfway towards the centre.
Game pieces move horizontally and vertically, but not diagonally, making the game more challenging as paths become obstructed.
A triangle was chipped from one of its corners and a crack extended diagonally across its surface.
She grabbed a medium-sized log from the hearthside basket and gently placed it diagonally across the top; she sat back on the couch, watching the flames, transfixed. Last Night at Chateau Marmont
As you near the stern, a large iron cleat or fairlead lies diagonally across the wreck, followed by a pair of bollards slightly to the port side.
He caught sight of the end of little Jim Coggin's comforter flaunting out through the "chinking," -- as the mountaineers call the series of short slats which are set diagonally in the spaces between the logs of the walls, and on which the clay is thickly daubed. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories
Was the evidence that the applicant ran across the road diagonally at the bridge parapet and went over?
Attached diagonally to a corner of each rectangle, and weighting it like an anchor, is a softly stepped cast-bronze form suggesting stone or relic, but also swinging pendulum and parasite. Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
The fabric is quilted diagonally and is well suited to a barn jacket styling.
She yelled back, tightly clutching the seatbelt running diagonally down her chest.
One of her dewclaws had slashed diagonally across my forehead, eyebrow, nose, and cheek.
Push a skewer through the thigh and across diagonally to the opposite wing. Times, Sunday Times
Each unit of its negotiated geometry is based on two opposed stainless-steel cylinders drawn diagonally erect by two thick and equally opposed cables.
The finely woven patterns in the feathers and wings, combs and waddles, beaks and tails, run in three directions: horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
Ahead, unknown to him, the narrow walkway was about to end, slanting diagonally toward the road, funneling the man's steps toward the pavement, the hurtling cars.
A quadrangular sail stretched from the mast by the help, not of a gaff along its top, but of a sprit (or yard) extending from the mast diagonally to the upper aftmost corner of the sail, as in the case of a Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
Push toward and diagonally across the sharp edge, maintaining the factory bevel.
The second travelator connects well with the first and conveys you diagonally through to the upper floor and the big main gallery space.
There were more troops where the corridor ended in great double doors, emblazoned with a straight broad-sword diagonally across an eight-pointed star. A Slave is a Slave
A railway line cuts the layout diagonally which means that there is scope for a metro rail link.
A physician who lived diagonally across the street from the family offered to let them live in his home, which was called the Pilaster House because of its decorative columns.
Dip them diagonally in melted white chocolate, leave to dry, then dip the other way in plain.
A Wonder Bread sandwich, cut in 2 pieces diagonally, is simply in a class of its own. I Should Not Have Come.....
‘Yes, he said that,’ Gregory said, moving his pawn diagonally to take his companion's bishop.

How To Use Diagonally In A Sentence

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