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Example sentences for "slantwise"

Lexicographically close words:
slant; slanted; slanting; slantingly; slants; slap; slape; slapped; slapper; slapping
  1. The girl's eyes glimmered at him slantwise from behind her hair.

  2. As the blood ebbed he dropped to his knees, and thence fell slantwise against a tree.

  3. She held it slantwise before her, and pressed her lips to the cold steel.

  4. The sunset rays thy valley fill; Poured slantwise down the long defile, Wave, wood, and spire beneath them smile.

  5. The Shoalsmen looked, but saw alone Dark films of rain-cloud slantwise blown, Wild rocks lit up by the lightning's glare, The strife and torment of sea and air.

  6. After leading his companions slantwise across the square, Massot stopped them near the prison and resumed: "I'm going inside; I want to see the prisoner roused and got ready.

  7. Even the ceiling was covered with mirrors disposed slantwise so that on every side things multiplied, mingled, and appeared under all possible aspects.

  8. Then I went nearer yet, and passed to the waterside, where I could look slantwise across the doorway.

  9. But this again has outworks; and the road into the ramparts from the long slope of Cannington hill to the southward runs slantwise through them, so that the gap it makes in the first line is covered by the second.

  10. Slantwise across Wastdale, and bearing to the right, Mr. Curwen had said.

  11. In that vast, seething sea of slantwise icy nodules not the oldest plainsman could hold notion of the compass.

  12. This snow came not down from the sky, but slantwise across the land, parallel with the earth, coming from the open side of the coldest nether hell hidden in the mysterious North.

  13. Air he must have, and he makes slantwise for the surface.

  14. In the game of ririka (leaping) a cocoanut log is laid slantwise from the beach to an upright post in the water.

  15. Slantwise across the high ridge of his twisted shoulder he looked at her long and contemptuously.

  16. Food is just food to some folks," she confided, casting a slantwise glance at her brother, "just what you might call fodder.

  17. The road leads slantwise through the upper valleys of Navarre, crossing by passes the various spurs of the mountains, but each pass higher than the last and less frequented, for each is nearer the main range.

  18. And so he took his feeling and put it away, together with a certain sachet, scented with violets, and having a pattern of violets on a white-satin ground, and the word Violet going slantwise across it in embroidery.

  19. It was with a crushed and nervous air, as of some great artist, conscious of his aim and of his failure, that he presented himself to Violet Usher, sliding slantwise into the place she made for him.

  20. This mandate given, the Thunders turned toward earth, Taking their course slantwise the sky.

  21. Another followed hard-- Lightning broke forth out of the cloud, Zigzag and dart, cleaving their way Slantwise to earth, their goal to reach.

  22. The sunset struck slantwise across her cheek and hung entangled in the brown tress that drooped low by her right temple.

  23. The steel point had pierced slantwise through his femoral artery.

  24. A ray of the afternoon sun fell slantwise from one of the high windows, and, crossed by it, her eyes blazed like lamps in their sockets.

  25. The westering sun, of which the beams just topped the farther side of the quadrangle, fell slantwise on their armour, and heightened their exaggerated and restless movements.

  26. My men tried it gingerly, and gave back, and tried it again in another place and finally, just as Mademoiselle and Monsieur came up to them, floundered through and sprang slantwise up the farther bank.

  27. She could see slantwise as she went on playing.

  28. She could see Mamma's small beautiful nose bending over the tray of beads, and her bright eyes that slid slantwise to look at her.

  29. He was turned slantwise from the nightlight on the washstand so that it showed his yellowish skin under the lifted shirt.

  30. In the affray in which the homicide occurred, he had received a cut across the forehead, and another slantwise across his nose, which had quite cut it in two, on a level with the face, and had thence gone downward to his lower jaw.

  31. There also is the sea, flowing in slantwise ripples towards the land, so that he loses all sense of east or west.

  32. And from the base of these steps a military road was carried slantwise towards the citadel.

  33. Whether it would not be more easy to reach these ladders by skirting slantwise from the higher slopes, is a question which is not in itself unreasonable, and which only actual experience will decide.

  34. He looked anxiously down the hill; then he lifted those soft, slantwise eyes to mine very wistfully.

  35. On his haunches, his slantwise eyes half closed, his head lifted high in the bright sunlight, sat little Colonel, wailing.

  36. Old Captain sat up on his haunches, his slantwise eyes wide open with wonder.

  37. The slantwise eyes became grave, and the long tail paused.

  38. Old McIntyre seemed to see him at almost the same moment, for he snarled out an oath, and clutched still closer at his treasure, looking slantwise at the master of the house with furtive, treacherous eyes.

  39. Before him lay the long sloping countryside, all dotted over with the farmsteadings and little red cottages, with the morning sun striking slantwise upon their grey roofs and glimmering windows.

  40. She was darker than her brother--so dark that her heavily coiled hair seemed to be black until the light shone slantwise across it.

  41. That was the way Alan always thought of their performance when he saw them circling slantwise under the sun.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slantwise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aside; beveled; bias; biased; canting; downgrade; downhill; inclined; inclining; leaning; listing; pitched; recumbent; sidelong; sideways; slant; slanted; slanting; sloping; tilting; tipped; tipping; tipsy; upgrade; uphill