How To Use Slanted In A Sentence

The police claimed that reports in the media were slanted against/towards the defendant.
The morning sun slanted through the glass roof.
Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun.
I kept envisioning the streets, the fields that slanted upwards with the little dividing lines of trees running in order to separate properties.
The other was really, really tall, with long jet black hair and slanted black eyes.

Latin scribes held their stiff-nibbed reed pens almost directly upright and at right angles to the writing surface, so that a down stroke from left to right and slanted at an angle of about forty-five degrees would bring the nib across the surface broadwise, resulting in the widest line possible to the pen. Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples
She said that the investigators’ report seemed “omissive” and therefore slanted against Freshwater. Freshwater April 29 & 30: Exploiting kids - The Panda's Thumb
At elections, when our minds are fuddled by fudged facts and slanted statistics, we ordinary mugs need merely study the smooth political faces on the television - and sniff.
Polling even showed that public opinion slanted rightward on these issues.
I would recognize the slanted eyes, the dark glistening skin and the high cheekbones anywhere.
The same light slanted across her face, illuminating her pale green eyes and making her slightly tanned skin glow.
The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
The foot is not fully pointed-straight up and down, with the toes aiming directly to the floor; it is angled or slanted back, in a beveled position.
The panel shapes vary much more, using slanted lines, making the panels rhombuses.
Crushing was traditionally done by foot, by treading grapes thinly spread on a crushing floor slanted towards a drain and bounded by low walls to prevent the loss of juice.
An arrow glanced off her helmet, but the angle was too slanted to do anything more than a slight irritation.
Bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows.
There is a certain relish that some on the left side of the political divide take in attacking progressives in a way that ensures that the boundaries of political discourse will be policed consistent with an information environment slanted in favor of the right-wing. Jonathan Weiler: On False Equivalencies
Beneath the fronded chemosensor tendrils, eyes were slanted and scarlet-hued. The Game Of Empire
I recognized one musician who had long hair and the slanted eyes of a Tatar.
Other articles to date seem to be slanted one way and give a biased direction.
At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
What strikes the human eye is the uniquely singular soaring roof, shaped like a slanted disc, which also appears to be in the form of the rising sun.
There was no light, and since the tunnel slanted sharply, it was hard to keep one's footing without slipping.
The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
She had lined her slanted hazel brown eyes with kohl.
The darkened ceiling slanted down toward the eaves; on it, above the lamp was a pale blurry oval.
| Reply at lunch today I passed a custom painted Lincoln, white on top, taxicab yellow from the quarter panels down and “LINCOLN” airbrushed in slanted gold trimmed white letters … the license plate read MTYGURL. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - EL reader catches another geeky plate
The artist photographs the Indiana landscape at sunrise and sunset, when the light is dramatically slanted.
Written in red ink, in my father's slanted, tiny writing, were five words, repeated over and over.
Medium height, the kind of face they called "elfin," with slanted ash-gray eyes and a bob of shoulder-length chrome-white hair. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
The beauty of the balmacaan is its clean-lined simplicity buttons are typically hidden under a front placket, and its pockets are slanted. Finding the Right Raincoat
Any comment that begins with “Obamacare” signals that the commenter is not neutral or objective but is an opponent of the legislation and the President and that the comment will be thoroughly slanted. The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association
Now I can watch CNN all evening for the news fair and equally reported instead of leaving the networtk because of Lou Dobbs and his "slanted" opinions. John King to replace Lou Dobbs
Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties.
Slightly upward slanted eyes, pointed ears, a long straight nose, pale skin, and a lithesome figure all pointed to an Evari heritage making the differences stand out even more.
In this position it will be found that the tip of the slanted end is in the center of the glottic chink and will slip readily into the trachea. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power.
When the blowflies enter the flower, slanted spines prevent exit, and the flies are trapped overnight, spreading their pollen to the mature female florets inside the flower.
If we as a nation had the strength to detach from the glittering, flickering baubles beamed into our cerebral cortexes and mute the bleating klaxons, we'd realize that the "news" spouted from many a sneering, slanted mouth is pure carnival barking, and we'd see what America has allowed itself to become. Steven Weber: Step Outside
He does not quote anyone saying the poll is not slanted.
Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing.
We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them.
Slanted media coverage is increasing public support for the war.
What strikes the human eye is the uniquely singular soaring roof, shaped like a slanted disc, which also appears to be in the form of the rising sun.
When networks run slanted stories that always favor the liberal cause, we serve a worthwhile function by exposing the slant and the consistency of the bias.
Bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows.
Pluck any hairs outside this line using tweezers with slanted ends, and always use a magnifying mirror so you don't pinch the skin, or miss any errant hairs.
The sun slanted through the window.
The slanted eyes of the headlight give the car an unmistakable look, adding to the muscular-looking bodywork, and remind me of a streamlined Japanese Sumo wrestler.
They were slanted somehow, and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu.
Rich dark clothing marked his status, and a sheathed sword slanted from his left hip, its tip just within the doorway of the carrel, as his toes just brushed the threshold. A River So Long
She pushed back her hair, as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window.
Even for professional decorators, many projects involve improving rooms that are challenging, by being too dark, too small, or by having oddly-slanted ceilings.
The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
The report was heavily slanted towards the city council's version of events.
The programme was deliberately slanted to make the home team look good.
The sunlight slanted through the windows into the room.
The winter light slanted through the dying trees.
It was brighter in there than it'd been the last time I'd visited: Light slanted in through the front windows, sunbeams visible in the smoky air.
Light slanted in from the window at the end of the long, rectangular walls, falling across the sneakers hanging on their peg.
Mrs. Williams also brought a pair of blunt-edged scissors, and some mucilage - a thick, brownish liquid that oozed out through a slit in the rubber-slanted cover when you pressed on it just right.
The picture is slanted to the left.
The morning sun slanted through the glass roof.
She slanted the report so that I was made to appear incompetent.
The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
The rays of the sun slanted through the window and spilled into the room.
The slanted light from the vent cover not far behind her illuminated her silhouette.
Then I fell to my knees and wrote I love Zach neatly in my slanted cursive script across the pavement.
The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
Bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows.
Escaping camel hawkers and un-digging my high heels from small avalanches of sand, I arrived at last at Pyramid Number Two -- the tomb of Khafre -- where a long narrow tunnel slanted into its earthen belly, lined with a metal ladder which served -- I understood, as I peered below -- as a staircase. Karin Badt: Christmas in Cairo: A 48 Hour Story
Sunlight slanted through the windows, illuminating his blond hair, now peppered with gray.
The crowd were standing on a slanted pebbly beach.
A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table.
The sun slanted through the window.
Who came up with the hip abbreviation, the slanted letterforms, the marketing strategy?
The problem with the focus on the categorization, it seems to me, is that it is, historically, based on publishing too — so the conversation becomes slanted from the get go (or faulty research, perhaps) – If the Dada movement specifically challenged the church and the patriarchy, but Artemesia Genteleshi was taking on the personal issues of rape, why is one so much more prevalent in our learning of art history? By the Numbers : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Squinting his eyes Kaerin read a particularly difficult word, the writing slanted and close together to almost look like a lone blob of ink.
Her firm jaw slanted sideways, and her large, deep-set eyes seemed often to be staring at some-thing in the distance.
Certainly by attacking Colin they'd achieved the same impact and national coverage, but i would have thought it was too obviously slanted at one person to have had much tmi-versal effect. Rat Race
It simply stood there on the gray strand twenty feet above the high tide line, seemingly as eternal as the sea itself, now casting the slanted shadow of its thickness toward the east as the sun westered. The Drawing of the Three
Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface.
The sunlight slanted through the windows into the room.
There were many houses - hundreds or even thousands with slanted, white-topped roofs and chimneys that billowed thick smoke so heavy as it hung almost frozen in the air.
The police claimed that reports in the media were slanted against/towards the defendant.
In Canada, although not alone, the CBC provides the most slanted and biased information, and routinely practices dishonest reporting.
Designed as a giant sheep pen for agricultural shows, the room has a slanted floor for, well, better drainage.
The "hemispherical" firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened. EveryJoe
The morning sun slanted through the glass roof.
They were tall, about 2 meters in height, of the "Nordic" blond type, with long red hair, slanted blue eyes, dressed in tight-fitting silver metallic suits. Derek Hennessy aka Connor O
Lepore's picture of ACM is surely slanted one way and gives but a partial picture of a person who was huge in the development of libraries and literature for children. Listen to Grandma
The handwriting changed from the slanted, flowing script to short, cramped letters jumbled together in a disorderly fashion.
As several readers have noted, Coleman no doubt slanted his descriptions of the bar patrons to make them sound ill-informed and bigoted.
I think the questionnaire is too slanted towards extemes. Take The Test
Roman tales of Cleopatra as louche and languid, a bedizened wastrel, are probably crudely slanted. In All Her Infinite Variety
The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
It was brighter in there than it'd been the last time I'd visited: Light slanted in through the front windows, sunbeams visible in the smoky air.
I agree that this is ridiculously politically slanted in one direction.
Twenty meters above them, earthlight slanted down through thick panes of polarized glass, illuminating a miniature rain forest. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
After breakfast, she sat in the front room where equatorial sun slanted in brightest through lacquered lattices to read every last thing she could scrounge from the one biblioteca that sold English print. BRASIL AS A GIRL
They were as different as night and day, but both bore the obvious mark of their heritage, the girl in her doll-like features, the boy in his fuliginous hair and slanted eyes the color of sapphires.
At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
The report was heavily slanted towards the city council's version of events.
The sunlight slanted through the trees, casting long shadows across his path.
In the museum lobby, a main directory resting on a console introduces the tactile itinerary on the slanted glass surface.
Most of the left and right live in echo chambers where their rhetoric can become ever more extreme and slanted and such extremism gets cheered and supported by likeminded people. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
There was no light, and since the tunnel slanted sharply, it was hard to keep one's footing without slipping.
These are basically the same stitch, called overhand if it is perpendicular and whipping if it is slanted. HOME COMFORTS
The morning sun slanted through the glass roof.
Her neat handwriting was flowing and legible, nothing like my slanted scrawl.
The symbols were pressed into soft clay tablets with the slanted edge of a stylus and so had a wedge-shaped appearance (and hence the name cuneiform).
I was taken aback to read the rather slanted and unbalanced coverage of the debate on the issue of protected structures in last week's issue of the Weekender.
The sunlight slanted through the windows into the room.
In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power.
In the cool of the evening he must often have stood outside the garden room and seen the monks from the big abbey fishing in their stewpond across the field, or lifted his eyes to where the last rays of sun slanted on to the lichened roof of the great tithebarn, and on to the rows of tenants, carrying their sheaves of corn along the road; and he reflected, perhaps, that John Mann and Thomas Medieval People
Why, at the open end, are the vertical edges of the long sides slightly slanted?
Slanted media coverage is increasing public support for the war.
He wrote a novel which slanted toward young adults.
A scar slanted across his face
She said Radio Pretoria also provided an antidote to what she called the slanted news broadcasts provided by other media. ANC Daily News Briefing
I don't think his monologues have been slanted and even if they were, so what?
Her neat handwriting was flowing and legible, nothing like my slanted scrawl.
Our military leaders couldn't decide whether name tapes should be sewn straight across the jungle fatigue shirt or slanted over the pockets.
Do you think the whole record industry is slanted against artists?
The hall chosen for the day's meeting was covered in drab brown, and filled with seats in a semicircle arrangement, slanted down and around the stage, at the foot of the seating.
Even though there were people like Berio and Crumb, most of the teaching was slanted toward Schoenberg, and atonalism and serialism, etc. Opera Today
The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
Slanted media coverage is increasing public support for the war.
And I don't think I'd mind that the paper was slanted if it was well-written.
Because of the way it is constructed, the socket on a goosewing axe can rather easily be slanted, or canted away from the plane of the blade by the blacksmith.
The back of the heel should be vertical - not slanted.
A cold stone passage lay just beyond, pitch black and slanted at a diagonal.
Perhaps most revealingly, their eyes are almost always described as slanted and Asian-like, begging the possibility that, in an abstruse way, they are Asian, perhaps descendants of some lost colony that diverged from the genetic mainstream tens of thousands of years ago. Archive 2006-04-01
Slanted media coverage is increasing public support for the war.
Polling even showed that public opinion slanted rightward on these issues.
The gloss comes out of a small hole in the tube's slanted-tip applicator, which is part of the tube. Epinions Recent Content for Home
It had not changed as we progressed: ocean, sand, low dunes crowned with impenetrable tangles of wild bay, sparkleberry, and live-oak, with here and there a weather-twisted palmetto sprawling, and here and there the battered blades of cactus and Spanish-bayonet thrust menacingly forward; and over all the vultures, sailing, sailing -- some mere circling motes lost in the blue above, some sheering the earth so close that their swiftly sweeping shadows slanted continually across our road. In Search of the Unknown
Even more devious were so-called slanted newscasts, slipped in so close to the enemy signal as to be confused with the genuine program but containing the slightest change in tone or emphasis, the ironic pause or well-placed snicker. A Covert Affair
Golden sunlight slanted across dark blue water, ruffled here and there with white lace or streaked brown with mud where it shallowed, but the central channel was wide and deep.
She has a catlike face with high, wide cheekbones, slanted brown eyes and full lips drawn around a small mouth.
With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate.

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