slantingly
Example Sentences
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Hold the point, not slantingly like a pencil, but as near as possible perpendicularly.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
The oxen lift their noses to heaven, with a strange and beseeching snake-like movement, and taking tiny little steps with their frail feet, move slantingly across the slope-face, between rocks and tree-roots.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The light of a distant Earth, struck slantingly across to leave this face of the pyramid in half-darkness.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
The words had hardly left Trevannion’s lips before the snake was seen crawling along the lliana, and the next moment transferring its body to a branch which grew slantingly from the main trunk.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
Gently feeling with his fingers, he found that the barb had only slantingly penetrated the fleshy part of the dog's thigh.
From Hawk Eye by David Cory
