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at right angles

adverb as in crosswise

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The drawing, across two walls at right angles, showed a boy playing joyously in a downfall of snow – but turn the corner and the viewer sees the "snow" is actually ash falling from a fire burning in a bin, echoing the larger plumes of smoke emitted day and night at the steelworks.

From BBC

On a promontory above Puget Sound, a Douglas fir with arms bent at right angles stands above a quiet cove, where shellfish would have been gathered, long before this place was settled by newcomers.

Planets that orbit stars at right angles.

But what excited them most were two pieces of wood found at right angles to each other.

From BBC

"Plus we had photographs, so we could build the whole thing up. Architects are doing this all the time and there are many buildings not set at right angles, like the Crooked House."

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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