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How to use slantwise in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
She settled herself onto the couch, slantwise, half reclining, supported by plush cushions, and kicked off her shoes.
She smiles, perhaps, but the light touches her slantwise, so I can't be sure.
He looked at his dad slantwise, and was satisfied when his father snorted amusedly and waved him on.
The child dashed across the macadam while the rain cut slantwise through the air.
The gravestone stood slantwise, most of Aaron's side broken off and lying face down in leaf mulch.
His voice still carries the slantwise intonations of working-class south Brooklyn.
At Jenner, where the Russian River makes its slantwise junction with the ocean, I stopped at the inn.
Though he doesn't experience the catastrophe, his story is at the heart of the book, and this is typical of Mandel's roving, slantwise focus.
All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
But the spire has been surpassed, for height and force, by a structure that soars slantwise some 400 metres into the air, and prods the clouds like an accusing finger.
If sound propagates from sources on the bottom of a valley to elevated dwellings on a side slope or plateau, the sound waves propagate slantwise through the atmosphere and not along the ground.
This interactive perspective projects relations in a relational space, setting them slantwise, so they can be identified, and one might say, playable.
The choice of ultra-feminine and precious fabrics, the brilliance and exuberance of abstract or naive prints, daring joy and cheerfulness of colors, the rigour and precision of slantwise cuts, touches one in the least.
Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.
In the natural position a cow has her back slightly slantwise.
Examples from Classical Literature
He removed the covering and peeped slantwise at the strange woman who stared at him unseeingly with large, bright eyes.
As it was, it caught him slantwise on the back and sent him staggering across the room.
I had the south window, kind of slantwise facing the road, and about twenty foot from it, where it passed the store.
The hunchback got on his feet, in position like a duelist, his hard, bitter face turned slantwise toward my father.
But what is there to prevent those doors to be fitted so as to move upwards, or horizontally, or slantwise?
Davies nursed our walnut-shell tenderly over their crests, edging her slantwise across their course.
Was it the hair, in whose bronzen waves a slantwise ray of sunlight ignited little glints of red-gold?
The light of the moon streamed in slantwise upon us as we sat round the bay-window.
There also is the sea, flowing in slantwise ripples towards the land, so that he loses all sense of east or west.
The feel of gravity pulling them slantwise and downward was purest nightmare.
The Abbot stood by the narrow window, and his long black shadow fell slantwise across the rush-strewn floor.
As he turned it slantwise to the light, the glint upon the rims of the copper shells within the drum showed that it was fully loaded.
But these objects, which keep their own counsel under slantwise weather are even stranger than they appear.
Personal access to the system is also always slantwise and preconditioned by angle of entry.
The sun shining slantwise through the trees threw delicate traceries across the road, with bars of golden light between.
The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil just like any other newly-planted piece of ground.
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