slantways

Example Sentences

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Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

He looked slantways out of the corners of his eyes.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The speaker was even larger than the Galway man, and his face was made curious by a purple cut running slantways from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard

What makes her go slantways against the wind?

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold

Ned Alderson stood outside; he stood slantways, not looking at her.

From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May