aslant
Example Sentences
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Even for readers who prefer the sensation of moving ahead to moving aslant, “Texas Blood” is a rich journey.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2018
Raban’s writing has grown infinitely more sophisticated since then, but its leitmotifs – struggles with overbearing authority, a search for refuge in a world that seems aslant – have remained.
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016
On one side, they are little more than sinuous vertical shapes aslant the screen’s three panels; on the reverse, they crowd at the left while their open, interlacing tails cover the two right-hand panels.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2014
It’s the world of Blueschild Baby, viewed aslant.
From Slate
With this Leodes thrust the bow away from him, and left it upright against the massy-timbered door, with one arrow aslant across the horn.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
