oblique

Better are her more oblique turns—realistic scenes with strange underpinnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

In other injury-related updates, Kiké Hernández was activated Tuesday after being out since May 26 with a grade 3 oblique strain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Though many critics and historians have tried, it’s impossible to get to the true root of a work as oblique as “Possession.”

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Some of the content is oblique -- vendors often post images of animals or parts for sale without any price or explanation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

She walked for about a quarter of a mile and then suddenly broke into an oblique run up the soft part of the beach.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Tuesday, he said he felt much better, focusing on his core and obliques.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

For just $2,599, this sleek and sturdy item offers users plate-loaded core training in a seated position, and a swivel seat to easily transition to targeting your obliques.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023

“There’s a lot that goes into swings, whether it’s obliques, whether it’s a bunch of things,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

“It’s weird how these obliques are; you just never know,” Martinez said of Suero, adding that the reliever is breathing fine.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2021

The fourth pair supply the superior obliques, and the sixth the external recti; so that III.,

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In doing this we obliqued to the southwest to escape a heavy fire now reaching us from the north and the quicker to get protection from the rolling ground.

From A Historic Sketch Lest We Forget Company E 26th Ohio Infantry by Walden Kelly

That gallant soldier threw his men on the exposed flank of the column which had obliqued, bent to the right.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Knew it Tuesday, when the ambulances obliqued at the top and went on down toward Staunton!

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

Then two others obliqued out to the right and left until nearly as a great a distance on the flanks.

From To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days by Charles King

The lawyers and henchmen obliqued off to the sides.

From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

If at halfstep or mark time while obliquing, the oblique march is resumed by the commands: 1.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

When my brigade had moved far around upon the left, and had taken position, obliquing toward the enemy's rear, it suddenly opened.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke

Half faced to front after obliquing, Forward, March.

From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker

The path was but a ledge, which, after running fifty yards in a direct line, made an abrupt double back in the opposite direction, all the while obliquing downwards.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

In this way I should rise by steps, as it were, obliquing always in the direction of the hatchway.

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read