slant
Rosa looked slantwise at Milly and smiled.
They stood immobile in the rain, their black caps perched slantwise on their heads.
The light fell slantwise on her face without shining on her eyes.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
acclivity
angled
anteversion
anteverted
askew
gentleness
inclination
incline
lean
lopsided
lopsidedly
lopsidedness
oblique
rake
skew
skew-whiff
slant
slanting
slantingly
steep

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Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations

Examples of slantwise

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She walked slowly past them, toward the fence of the cemetery, looking slantwise to the right and the back.
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They could see the cutter holding a course slantwise to their own!
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On the right a cottage piano was set slantwise.
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The flowers are then put in slantwise, beginning at the ends of the basket, and working towards the middle, until the space is all occupied.
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The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil, just like any other newly planted piece of ground.
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He picked up the paper and held it slantwise to the light of the window while he peered at its surface.
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The head hits the ground slantwise, and the body slides and wriggles after it much like a fleeing snake.
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He pointed to a white sail far out stuck up like a feather slantwise in the water.
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He leaps upon the smooth tree-trunk, growing slantwise instead of perpendicular.
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She raised her chin a trifle and peered at him slantwise.
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She glanced at him; slantwise, yet the look made his heart ache.
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Hold each piece securely slantwise in the vise, because one pair especially is apt to split from the notch outward.
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Big drops of rain, driven slantwise by gusts of wind, were making the passers-by run hastily to cover.
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The operation is accomplished by means of a rigid iron bar set slantwise in a table.
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A narrow track led to it, through the gaps, slantwise, from the gate of the mistal.
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