set at an angle
Example Sentences
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They can be made to do so with a beam splitter, a half-silvered mirror set at an angle that will, with equal probability, transmit a photon or deflect it by 90°.
From Science Magazine • May 6, 2024
Its simplicity and abstraction, just two long walls set at an angle in the earth, broke with centuries of established memorial architecture.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022
It also has a bit of a sloped design, similar to the way the Echo Show and Meta Portal’s cases are set at an angle.
From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2022
Stars rise and set at an angle to the horizon.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Toward the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
