aslant

Example Sentences

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Around midafternoon I stopped to eat in La Reforma, a small town aslant on the mountainside, scattered on both sides of the road, one building signposted Restaurante Rosa.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2019

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

Bruce Grinnord parked aslant in his usual spot and ran inside the DiZi Corp. headquarters.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2014

I wonder out loud at how badly the new brickwork has been laid; the bricks float aslant on cement that oozes out from between them like jam in an overfilled Victoria sponge.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2010

This is the first time I’ve ever seen Ofglen’s eyes, directly, steadily, not aslant.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood