slant
Example Sentences
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The Fool in “King Lear” is tricky because he speaks “at a slant to the world,” in a style that, despite bubbling with nonsense, follows its own strange logic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
More notable than the volume of Friday’s expiration is the heavy slant toward puts.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
That is just solid legal analysis that really should not have a partisan or ideological slant.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2026
Two years on, campaigners continue to fight for the return - slant included - of what they dub the "most famous pub in the world".
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025
The whole world was white, filled with dime-sized snowflakes that fell at a slant before being caught by the wind and hurled in a variety of directions.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing slant
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