How To Use Slantwise In A Sentence
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A narrow track led to it, through the gaps, slantwise, from the gate of the mistal.
The Three Sisters
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They walked slantwise with the garden, not really looking at it.
CHARMED LIFE
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Above them they saw the bulldozer lurching and shuddering slantwise down the torn edge of cliff.
COUP D'ETAT
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With his free hand, the man drew a finger in a slantwise gesture along the left side of his jaw.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
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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, Complete
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The most controversial and dramatic elements of the building, the 14 thermal chimneys. are clearly related to the pilaster-like piers by patinated aluminium bronze plate ducts which run slantwise across the roof slope.
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I'm not absolutely convinced that for this event... we're going to get that, but the model is certainly pointing to a slantwise convection aspect and we have to pay attention to that.
At weather expo, top snow expert shares views
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Horses jammed the ford over the stream; Michael crossed above them, galloping slantwise across the slope after the belling pack, stretched low on his horse's neck to clear the branches.
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Harry tried launching himself from the rungs, bouncing slantwise from the opposite wall.
I Don’t Understand ?
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She smiles, perhaps, but the light touches her slantwise, so I can't be sure.
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Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
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Kostas looked slantwise at the Lieutenant Colonel, who looked tense ahead, pale, sweating, he looked like a man in a wash of fear.
COUP D'ETAT
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Then he shook the bridle, shouted loudly and guided Pegasus, not aslantwise as before, but straight at the monster's hideous front.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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When Hobo disappeared from the screen, Flint would get closer and look slantwise in the direction that the dog had gone, trying to catch a glimpse of the disappearing furry star.
Born to Bark
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In its pristine state it consisted of a double row of three great open arches, with the wind blowing through them, and the sunshine falling aslantwise into them, while the bustle of the market, the sale of fish, flesh, or fruit went on within, or brimmed over into the streets that enclosed them on every side.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete
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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
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Where the sun falls aslantwise under the arch a sentinel, with musket and bayonet, paces to and fro in the entrance, and other soldiers lounge close by.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
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These circumstances lead to incredibly strong upward motion and the slantwise convection.
What made Wednesday's storm special?
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She settled herself onto the couch, slantwise, half reclining, supported by plush cushions, and kicked off her shoes.
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Again saving his breath, the man backed downspin, but slantwise, so that he added little to his weight.
Inconstant Star
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The lightning seemed to run slantwise along the clouds in jagged streams, and to end each time with a plunge straight down into the earth.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Strike here, where the neck joins the shoulder, holding the sword slantwise, for there even a woman's blow will serve to sever the great artery.
The Wanderer's Necklace
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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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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.
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He looked at his dad slantwise, and was satisfied when his father snorted amusedly and waved him on.
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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
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Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
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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
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The child dashed across the macadam while the rain cut slantwise through the air.
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This is often referred to as slantwise convection.
What made Wednesday's storm special?
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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
