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Example sentences for "obliqued"

Lexicographically close words:
obliging; obligingly; obligingness; obliqua; oblique; obliquely; obliques; obliquity; obliterate; obliterated
  1. The probabilities are that old soldier-like seeing or suspecting the true situation, the men intuitively or purposely obliqued away to an easier place of attack; at any rate they did it.

  2. There was no considerable bend in the road or anything else that obliqued my men either way to any great extent.

  3. The enfilading infantry and artillery fire from our front at first was about all Emery had to fear, but his Corps soon obliqued away from it.

  4. The Nineteenth Corps instead of obliquing to the left towards us to shorten the interval and help us, intuitively obliqued the other way; but fortunately there was no road or bend in it to blame it to.

  5. When we struck the snow-patch slope we obliqued over to our trail up, and began to back track.

  6. The old Indian trail obliqued off, up a slope, through the timber on the right, and so did we.

  7. They were moving toward us, so we obliqued toward them, with our shadows cast long by the low sun.

  8. Meade obliqued to the right, poured in a few volleys, and drove the enemy across the turnpike.

  9. The extreme right of the British obliqued to Merke Braine, and covered the road to Nivelles, while the left kept the communication with the Prussians open by the Ohain road, which runs through the passes of Saint Lambert.

  10. A tongue of land in the advance of their right, ran nearly for a mile parallel with the canal, and had obliged the British posts to be thrown considerably back, and thus obliqued their line.

  11. On observing this convergence of his silent and persevering pursuers, Costal suddenly obliqued to the right.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obliqued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.