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slantwise

ADVERB
  1. at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction

How To Use slantwise In A Sentence

  • Then he shook the bridle, shouted loudly, and guided Pegasus, not aslantwise as before, but straight at the monster's hideous front. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People
  • They are the remains, in all probability, of a long flexible fucoid, like those fucoids of the intertropical seas that, streaming slantwise in the tide, rise not unfrequently to the surface in fifteen and twenty fathoms water. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • This is often referred to as slantwise convection. What made Wednesday's storm special?
  • The child dashed across the macadam while the rain cut slantwise through the air.
  • Dashing aslantwise, as before, the winged horse made another arrow-flight toward the Chimæra, and Bellerophon aimed another downright stroke at one of the two remaining heads, as he shot by. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People
  • Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
  • It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslantwise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful. VII. The Governor’s Hall
  • He looked at his dad slantwise, and was satisfied when his father snorted amusedly and waved him on.
  • When we entered the church, the long, dusty sunbeams were falling aslantwise through the dome and through the chancel behind it .... Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
  • After placing the bra at the foot of the bed, she returns to him to sit slantwise across his knees. GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT
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