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
Shoes that prevent slippage with the ramp set at an angle of at least seven degrees get a single snowflake rating.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2021
It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn’t belong in these parts.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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