He therefore quitted it altogether, and struck, in an oblique direction, up the opposite face of the ravine.
At his approach, the hurdles of the other players were withdrawn, when, at a single blow from his powerful arm, the ball was seen flying into the air in an oblique direction, and was for a moment lost altogether to the view.
The company in line or in column of squads may be deployed in an oblique directionby the same commands.
When the teeth are a series of sharp edges, raised by the flat chisel, appearing like parallel furrows, either at right angles to the length of the file, or in an oblique direction, they are termed single cut.
This again turns the wheel u, whose long axis v goes to the middle of the horse's body, in an oblique direction, through the hollow shaft.
When the two threefold slivers have passed through between the three pairs of rollers, and been thereby properly drawn, they run towards each other in an oblique direction, behind the last roller pair e f, fig.
The first are fitted for brass and copper, and are found to answer better when the teeth run in an oblique direction.
Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
These pieces of wood must be nailed in the middle of each face of the wheel, and fixed in an oblique direction; so that the fire from the cases may incline upwards.
All the cases on this wheel must play in an oblique direction downwards, and burn two at a time; and those on the large wheel, four at a time; i.
Some of the defenders endeavoured to resist; but they were few in number, and exposed to the projectiles which the auxiliary troops of slingers and archers incessantly discharged upon them in an oblique direction.
The engineer entrusted with the setting out had disposed the fosse in an oblique direction, as shown in Fig.
Some prefer the open air, and suspend them in the midst of shrubs or plants most frequented by flies and other small insects, fixing them in a horizontal, a vertical, or an oblique direction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oblique direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
