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slanting

[ US /ˈsɫæntɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /slˈɑːntɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having an oblique or slanted direction

How To Use slanting In A Sentence

  • White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
  • Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
  • SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. The Short-story
  • I can remember the sun slanting down onto the honey-coloured wood of the lab bench.
  • Everywhere people are promenading, basking in the miraculous light: warm, long, slanting, at once brilliant and diffuse.
  • Swiss chalets have steeply slanting roofs, so that snow does not settle on them.
  • Nevertheless, in the ninth century, Danila, the scribe of the three-columned bible of La Cava, mastered capitalis, uncial, half-uncial, a slanting half-uncial with uncial admixture, and minuscule, all with equal elegance." (p. 99) December Books 11) Latin Palaeography
  • Yet, Lord Taylor accuses newspapers of slanting accounts of sentences, of failing to convey salient facts.
  • They have large, forward-set, movable eyes and an upward slanting mouth with a long protruding lower jaw that can be thrust out.
  • As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat.
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