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How to use aslant in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word aslant? Here are some examples.

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I don't understand why she goes backwards, back and aslant, tacking to one side.
Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might.
The paintings of Edouard Chaullet are characterised by the bold treatment of the subject which often seems to be aslant.
A large Russian Orthodox cross — a three-barred cross with the bottom bar set aslant — has been erected on the summit of the dome.
To wrap the roller covering spiral-wise, cut the end of the covering aslant by a length equal to the circumference of the roller.
Put the driving wheel aslant on your starting point.
To accomplish this, each caisson was shipped aslant into the other and consequently turned into the correct position at the turning point of the tide.
His hat, aslant over his brow, and took a pose on his toes for all of us.
In performance, the bassoon is held aslant on a sling.
People like Mark Gonzales and Natas Kaupas were especially to thank, capitalizing on architecture in new ways, and looking aslant to the more technical branch of freestyle skating for ideas.
They moved down the ridge through a thicket of rhododendron, the ground so aslant that in a couple of places he'd have tumbled if he hadn't watched how Lucy did it, front foot sideways and leaning backward.
Her own favorite is one in the shape of a bouquet of roses, perched aslant on the head, though the hat she'd chosen to wear that day was a more modest production: a burgundy-colored knit skullcap.
When you watch the screen aslant, the picture might not be clear.
Facing the ladies a biretta'd priest appeared to be perusing a little, fat, black, greasy book of prayers which he held aslant so as to catch the light.
Examples from Classical Literature
He turned the glass so that the sun shown on it aslant and threw a glare toward her.
The late afternoon sun shone in aslant through the western window, like a wide bar of gold.
He withdrew it from his hatband, where he always wore it aslant like a feather.
The walls themselves were aslant under a dizzy careening to starboard.
Roast it, then cut off the fillets and cut them aslant and flatten them.
Joe twisted his mustache, eyed her aslant and took the plunge.
His gray hat was pushed aslant as his head rested against hers.
They eyed him aslant as they worked, for visitors were rare occurrences.
The sun's rays, while striking us aslant, furnished tranquil warmth.
Both had dark faces, set off by cloth caps, which were drawn down aslant over their brows.
It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.
When at last we got into the town, the people came out to their doors, all aslant, and with streaming hair, making a wonder of the mail that had come through such a night.
A birch besom was placed aslant in the open doorway of a house, with the head of the besom on the doorstone, and the top of the handle on the doorpost.
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