aslant
Example Sentences
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A pair of rectangular glasses sit somewhat aslant on his round face, which after weeks of frantic travel and fitful sleep showed signs of enervation.
From New York Times • May 24, 2022
In one of the corn fields a scarecrow caught her eye, crossed staves propped aslant, and the corn husks rotting under it.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018
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
The timbers of small corrals were broken, well housings aslant, outhouses blown over and destroyed.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
