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How to use canted in a sentence

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The seam of the canopy and the weapon bay doors are sawtoothed and the vertical tails are canted at an angle.
He sat back in the chair, leaned an elbow on the table, and canted his head to rest in that hand.
Just then, the entire vessel canted to one side, as if thrown there by some unimaginable force.
The tips are canted up to give more ground clearance on takeoff and landing.
But it does take me a while to work out that the canted pillars with cups on top and pistons on the side are depth-charge catapults.
In most harbors, though, a mushroom anchor might be buried a foot or two in a mud bottom and is usually canted to the prevailing winds.
With its canted fairways framed by windswept dunes, Spanish Bay is a tribute to Scottish golf.
Tom suddenly slid out from beneath Aligore, skimming on his back across the canted deck.
The wreck here is open above, with the remains of the engine canted to port.
This holster can also be canted from a vertical position to a grip-forward or muzzle-forward position.
Because of the angle, we were canted back in our seats rather like being in an aircraft when it makes a steep ascent.
The stern is intact, though canted over to lie on its starboard side, like the rest of the wreck.
When Melissa canted her head to slant away the strand of straight blond hair, my eyes focused on her lips.
He rode on, sitting the tractor as if it were a horse, and canted a parasol to deflect the cruellest and most direct of the sun's rays.
He was a man above middle-age, with a sharp and wizened face, and he held his head canted so that he seemed to be ear-first as he faced you.
At about eight or nine o'clock, as near as I could judge by the altitude of the sun, the wind rose suddenly and canted our barge on one side.
Hand-made of fine leather and trimmed in exotic alligator, the holster can be positioned straight, or canted forward for even more versatility.
Louis XV mantel from the 18th century in Burgundy stone with canted console jambs adorned with shells and flowers.
The locomotive derailed and came to rest canted to one side beside the track.
In order to grant the west front of the Campus Center a respectable height, Koolhaas canted the roof to accommodate the tube, leaving a roughly V-shaped south elevation.
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She canted her head to one side and considered him with fearless blue eyes.
He had one of those long faces which invariably imply shrewdness, and he canted his head to one side while he watched Andy.
When I tried to get on the bed it canted over and deposited me on the floor.
The rocket was canted slightly but, he thought, not dangerously so.
And they had such a horror of cant, that they canted on the other side.
A telescope stood in the yard, with its huge barrel canted up toward the lustrous evening star.
Then he canted over to port and reached down into his pocket.
We were jolly glad you got canted out, though you are a bit of a mule.
With her extra canvas, the James was canted over perilously.
In conformity with such Wieroo architecture as he had already observed, the well through which the ladder rose continually canted at an angle from the perpendicular.
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