The mists are rising, the wind springs up anew, the clouds set sail, and a beam slants high.
He had long known that his father owned the greater part of the unproductive wilderness lying between the two ravines; the land was almost worthless by reason of the steep slants which rendered it utterly untillable.
Not a muscle stirred about her calm mouth and the smooth triangle of forehead between her curtain slants of gray hair.
This shabby row leaned and lopped and settled upon themselves, into all the lines and curves and downward slants of laziness, and with rank tobacco-smoke curling about them, like the very languid breath of it.
The forest slants down to your feet in dwindling scrub, which half conceals an abandoned log structure.
The one at the bottom slants forward, and reflects the image caught by the top mirror.
The top mirror slants backward, and reflects objects in front of it.
Shefford's nerve was sorely tried when he saw steep slants everywhere, all apparently leading down into chasms, and no place a man, let alone a horse, could put a foot with safety.
They came to a more difficult ascent, where the stone still held to the smooth curves, yet was marked by steep bulges and slants and crevices.
Wood roads are barricaded with low arches of ice that the hare and the fox can barely find passage beneath, and with long, curved slants of great limbs bent to the earth.
The eye of the man from Weehawken slantsaway from the eye of the man from Sioux City.
The break in the wall led to a ledge, and the ledge dropped from step to step, and these had bare, slippery slants between.
Walls and weathered slants of rock and steep slopes of reddish-yellow sand inclosed this oval depression.
The slantshe slid down on his haunches with his forelegs stiff and the iron shoes scraping.
In thieves the base of the nose often slants upwards, and this characteristic of rogues is so common in Italy that it has given rise to a number of proverbs.
The eyes and ears are frequently situated at different levels and are of unequal size, the nose slants towards one side, etc.
Or when the sunset slants its brimstone light Above the water!
The back edge curves slightly upward forming a crest near the tip, with a flat end that slants outward so that the end and the bottom form a point.
The difficulty lies in the impossibility of reading the slants of the pathways on the moon precisely and in the three-dimensional nature of movement through space.
This effect results from the different slants at which the zenith distances cause the cones to intersect the flight ceiling.
The arrows indicate direction only and their slants were obtained by vector analysis of the over-all sector densities.
Figures 46 and 47, particularly in regard to the unusual slants of the flight vectors at Ottumwa, Knoxville, and Memphis, illustrate that this coincidence holds even when the wind is proceeding obliquely eastward or westward.
Both Jim and Markwith seemed to have plenty of "smoke" as they sent their slants and benders over.
Joe was pitching now like a man inspired, and his bewildering curves and slants had made the Boston sluggers look like "bushers.
The line standing for the participle is broken; one part slants to represent the adjective nature of the participle, and the other is horizontal to represent its verbal nature.
The line that separates made from queen slants toward the object complement to show that queen belongs to the object.
From this hole a tunnel slants downwards, at an angle, into the adjacent wall, where there is an apartment some twelve feet in depth, and wide enough to contain half a dozen people.
The colors of autumn gleamed under the cliffs, everywhere patches of gold and long slants of green and spots of scarlet and clefts of purple.
Everywhere pine needles dropped, shining in the sunlight like thin slants of rain.
The village houses receded through shifting distances of pale gloom; one could scarcely distinguish the white slants of their roofs, and the lamp-lights which shone out newly in some of the windows made rosy nimbuses.
Simon Basset faltered as if he had forgotten either his name or his spelling, and it was truly a strange signature when done, full of sharp slants of rebellion and curves of indecision.
The only habitation in sight was Squire Eben Merritt's, and of that only the broad slants of shingled roof and gray end wall of the barn, with a pink spray of peach-trees against it.
What wing from the heights Slants to that murdered limb?
Jack and Solomon set out in the bush that afternoon and before night fell were up on the mountainslants north of the Glassy Water, as Lake George was often called those days.
Then the hole is a disc of light--a moonbeam strikes straight through it across the grey green of the circle that the stones mark, and as the moon rises the moonbeam slants downward.
The moonbeam slants more and more; now it touches the far end of the stone, now it draws nearer and nearer to the middle of it, now at last it touches the very heart and centre of that central stone.
The main feature of this die is that the lower left curve slants sharply downward and is far from base of "C".
In the numerals of value the end stroke does not curve back, but slants sharply from the downstroke.
S" slants sharply to right and is far from right oval.
E" slants sharply to the left and "EN" wide at base.
Upper right curve slants inward and is much nearer to base than to top of "E".
Starting from the vertex of the cranium one line slants toward the forehead and another toward the occiput, which is very massive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
