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Example sentences for "slantingly"

Lexicographically close words:
slanging; slangy; slant; slanted; slanting; slants; slantwise; slap; slape; slapped
  1. Some fifty yards ahead of them, and a little to the right, a low spit of rock, half awash for the greater part of its length, ran out slantingly from the wall of the stupendous chamber.

  2. She had been smashed in some complicated manner that left the upper part of her body intact, and lying slantingly upon pillows.

  3. He used always to sit in a peculiar attitude with his arms crossed on his crossed legs, looking slantingly through his glasses.

  4. Toe-nailing, or foot-nailing, consists in driving the nails diagonally or slantingly down through the ends of the beams to the sill, in place of nailing through from the top down to the sill.

  5. The last three words scrawled slantingly down the page; they were in large and heavier writing--they looked like a cry.

  6. Reaching out, she caught the hat as it descended slantingly over the bulwarks, and was down again before the child's clutching hands had left his head.

  7. Only the leprous-white trees remained motionless; their red-veined trunks towered high in air, and the sun of late afternoon shot slantingly through a leafy roof overhead.

  8. The light of a distant Earth, struck slantingly across to leave this face of the pyramid in half-darkness.

  9. Then, as objects came slowly into focus before his eyes, he knew that above him a ray of light was striking slantingly through the thick glass of a control-room lookout.

  10. The edge of the strip is placed slantingly at the end of the tank in the surface of the body and the surface colour drawn off, at the same time lightly pressing the ends of the strip against the sides of the trough.

  11. The Berlin make pares from right to left; here the blade is held almost parallel to the edge of the leather, the point of the knife inclining to the leather; with the other the edge is cut over slantingly with the point outwards.

  12. To obtain the outward slanting effect point the spokes straight out towards the weaver, and, after weaving four rows turn and hold the spokes slantingly upward.

  13. Hold the spokes slantingly outward and weave the sides 4-3/4 inches high.

  14. The spokes should be held slantingly outward, while weaving, to obtain the desired shape.

  15. Hold the spokes slantingly inward and weave seventeen rows of No.

  16. The spokes are held slantingly outward until twenty-five rows of No.

  17. While weaving, the spokes should be held slantingly outward.

  18. Its butt the trapper drove slantingly into the sand where the water was an inch or two deep, bracing it securely with stones.

  19. As the young moose sprang into the air, the claws caught him slantingly on the haunch.

  20. The next instant one sharp horn caught her slantingly in the flank, ripping its way upward and inward, while the mad impact threw her upon her back.

  21. Where the peak leaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit.

  22. Beginning from his bench-mark at the foot of the mountain, Blake carried the level line slantingly up the ridge side.

  23. A board can be fitted slantingly from the bottom to the edge, at one or both ends, to form an incline by which the users of this miniature pond can crawl in and out of the water.

  24. The cord should be raised squarely from the work and not pulled slantingly to one side or the line will not be straight.

  25. One corner of each end should be sawed off slantingly (Fig.

  26. From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather.

  27. They took care not to approach the place where they had thrown Montgomery into the water, but instead, carried the four dead Beast People slantingly along the beach for perhaps a hundred yards before they waded out and cast them away.

  28. I saw her plunge into them, and Moreau, running slantingly to intercept her, fired and missed as she disappeared.

  29. I see in my walks where she has cropped the tops of the small, bushy, soft maples, cutting them slantingly as you would with a knife, and quite as smoothly.

  30. He digs in slantingly for about two or three feet, then makes a sharp upward turn and keeps nearly parallel with the surface of the ground for a distance of eight or ten feet farther, according to the grade.

  31. The grinding is done upon a stone set slantingly on the ground.

  32. This pole was then stuck slantingly into the ground and three notches were cut in it.

  33. I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.

  34. The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London.

  35. The condensing pipe proceeds slantingly downwards from the further end of h, and dips into a large sloping iron cylinder immersed in cold water.

  36. Gently feeling with his fingers, he found that the barb had only slantingly penetrated the fleshy part of the dog's thigh.

  37. You go forward slantingly toward the Ever Summer Land.

  38. The carriage rolled quickly over the rails of the many tracks at the crossing, then slantingly down the slope of the embankment, and on the turnpike past an inn called "The Prince Bismarck.

  39. By taking a quick start and running the ends of the two poles slantingly into the ground I was able to swing myself without fail upon the stilt-blocks and to begin immediately my giant stride.

  40. Build up the edge of the saucer slantingly to join the inner coil of the handle (F, Fig.

  41. Pressing the point of the second stick slantingly against the earth, run it around and around in a circle until a circular line is distinctly marked (Fig.

  42. A flush covered his face; his nostrils distended; his eyes stared out slantingly in Tartar fashion, and began to cast lightning.

  43. To carve, cut it in thin slices slantingly through the thickest end, where there is most fat; if underdone it is uneatable.

  44. There it lay coiled upon its scaly self, snugly ensconced in the fork below, with skin glittering brightly, and eyes gleaming fiercely in the golden sunlight that now fell slantingly against the tree.

  45. They were careful not to cause the slightest commotion,--careful, too, to keep out of the narrow belts of light that fell slantingly from the fires above.

  46. The words had hardly left Trevannion's lips before the snake was seen crawling along the lliana, and the next moment transferring its body to a branch which grew slantingly from the main trunk.

  47. To prove whether it is or not, set the vernier on about 60°, and look slantingly through the mirror.

  48. Set the vernier on zero and look slantingly through the horizon glass.

  49. There were other shapes in the markings of the Service that shot slantingly down.

  50. The light of the sun struck slantingly across to throw one side of the gigantic cup into shadow, while the opposite rim blared brightly in the lunar dawn.

  51. Her immense soft tresses of the jettiest hair had slantingly fallen over her as though a curtain were half drawn from before some saint enshrined.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slantingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aside; downgrade; downhill; sideways; slant; upgrade; uphill